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Tornado Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1996, 1:37 AM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 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 15, 1996, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Tammany Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 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
- 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 150637 TORNEW LAC103-150700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 137 AM CDT MON APR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...SOUTHEASTERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH AT 135 AM CDT...ST TAMMANY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN SLIDELL NEAR THE PINK PANTHER TRAILER PARK ON HIGHWAY 190 AT 120 AM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS NEAR THIS AREA SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. 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, Apr 15, 1:00 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
LAZ050-038-150630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1259 AM CDT MON APR 15 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TANGIPAHOA PARISH HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 1255 AM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED HAIL OF UNSPECIFIED SIZE EAST OF PONCHATOULA AROUND 1230 AM. A TORNADO WA2TCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM AND ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE NORTH SHORE AREA OF LAKES MAUREPAS AND PONTCHARTRAIN THROUGH 200 AM. &
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, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 32 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, 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.