Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1992, 6:18 PM CDT for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1992, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orleans Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 2722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 152321 TORNEW LAC071-160015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 618 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...ORLEANS PARISH ...ALSO FOR LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN... AT 615 PM CDT SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TWO WATERSPOUTS WERE OBSERVED OVER LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN NEAR THE NEW ORLEANS WATERFRONT. WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA DRIFTING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WINDS EXCEEDING GALE FORCE... ROUGH SEAS... HEAVY RAINFALL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND THE POSSIBILITY OF WATERSPOUTS. SMALL CRAFT SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.
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, Jul 15, 12:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
LAZ006-008-009-152000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1245 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WIND SCATTERED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED IN A SCATTERED BAND FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MARKSVILLE...INTO SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI NEAR MEADVILLE AND BROOKHAVEN. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE COAST FROM MARSH ISLAND TO BRETON SOUND. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
LAZ006-008-009-152200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 250 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WIND SCATTERED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA WEST OF BATON ROUGE. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED IN A SCATTERED BAND FROM LAFAYETTE TO ST FRANCISVILLE AND INTO SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI NEAR LIBERTLY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE COAST SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES TO NEW IBERIA AND NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDXER OF THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
LAZ006-008-009-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 340 PM CDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WIND SCATTERED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITIAN AREA AND WESTWARD. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED IN A SCATTERED BAND FROM LAFAYETTE TO ST FRANCISVILLE AND INTO SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI NEAR LIBERTTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE COAST SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES TO NEW IBERIA AND NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:32 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
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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.