Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 1996, 1:04 PM CST for Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1996, 1:04 PM CST (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1996, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington Parish, LA, Pearl River County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado F2 | White Sand, MS | |
| Feb 19, 2:05 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Mc Neil, MS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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 191907 TORNEW LAC117-MSC109-192000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 104 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...WASHINGTON PARISH IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...PEARL RIVER COUNTY AT 105 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SLIDELL INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING IN WASHINGTON PARISH JUST WEST OF BOGALUSA MOVING EAST AT 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 ISH 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 64 min |
| Feb 19, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 64 min |
| Feb 19, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 26 min |
| Feb 19, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 42 min |
| Feb 19, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 66 min |
| Feb 19, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 65 min |
| Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 62 min |
| Feb 19, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.