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Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 10, 1994Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1994, 12:19 PM CDT for Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1994, 12:19 PM CDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1994, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Saint Charles Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 101719
TORNEW
LAC089-101800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1219 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES...
 
IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ST.CHARLES PARISH
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
 
 
AT 1215 PM ST CHARLES PARISH REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR TAFT
LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 10 MILES AN HOUR
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson	43 min
Jun 10, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	64 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.