Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 12, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1996, 7:43 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1996, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 2003 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 14.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 150042 TORNEW LAC105-150115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 743 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT 742 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF ROBERT MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH ROBERT BY 755 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WjORKBENCH 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, Apr 14, 4:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
LAZ038-039-MSZ070-071-142145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 409 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TANGIPAHOA PARISH AND PIKE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 405 PM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH LOUISIANA AND PIKE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED INTO NORTHERN WASHINGTON PARISH AND WALTHALL COUNTY. THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED JUST EAST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...AND THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-150030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 614 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI EXPIRED AT 6 PM CDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO INCLUDE WILKINSON..AMITE..PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI... MUCH OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE WATCH AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON HOWEVER NEW DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR. THE MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED FOR LATER0 STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 58 min |
| Apr 15, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 69 min |
| Apr 15, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 23 min |
| Apr 15, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 41 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.