Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 11, 1993, 4:41 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1993, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1993, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 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, 10.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -194 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 112242 TORNEW LAC105-112315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 441 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...CENTRAL TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT 440 PM CST TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE SIGHTED NEAR TICKFAW IN CENTRAL TANGIPAHOA PARISH. WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE FUNNEL CLOUDS WAS MOVING TOWARE THE EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. 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 NO 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, Feb 11, 4:01 PM CST, 40 minutes before
LAZ009-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 355 PM CST THU FEB 11 1993 ...THUNDERSTORM OVER BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN... RADAR AND PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATES THAT A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE BATON ROUGE AREA IS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCHHAS BEEN REPORTED IN BRUSLY... THE INTERSTATE 10/12 AREA AND JEFFERSON H6IGHWAY IN SOUTH BATON ROUGE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF LIVINGSTON PARISH FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 43 min |
| Feb 11, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.