Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 7, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1992, 5:52 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1992, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tangipahoa Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 272253 TORNEW LAC105-272345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 552 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT 545 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NY THE PUBLIC NEAR ALBANY LOUISIANA IN LIVINGSTON PARISH. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SLIDELL RADAR IN THIS AREA AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF N|O BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
LAZ009-010-012-013-014-272045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 150 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...THUNDERTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIA
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:34 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
LAZ-006-009-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 530 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE NORTHEAST ACROSS PLAQUEMINE...BATON ROUGE... GONZALES CONTINUING ACROSS THE FLORIDA PARISHES NORTH AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 12. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...THEY WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS... UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT ONE TO THREE HOURS. ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA...OAKDALE...SIMMESPORT AND VIDILIA.
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.