Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 6:59 AM CST for Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 6:59 AM CST (12:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lafourche Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 1411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 241259 RRA SVRNEW LAC057-109-241400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 659 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...CENTRAL LAFOURCHE PARISH...TERREBONNE PARISH AT 659 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN TERREBONNE PARISH ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST HOUMA MOVING TOWARD THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HOUMA AND LOCKPORT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-231900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 400 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA..AND SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI IS CANCELLED... THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA..SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI IS CANCELLED. INCREASING SOUTH WINDS AND DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE INHIBITING FURTHER DENSE FOG FORMATION ACROSS THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 4:13 AM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-231900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 400 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA..AND SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI IS CANCELLED... THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA..SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI IS CANCELLED. INCREASING SOUTH WINDS AND DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE INHIBITING FURTHER DENSE FOG FORMATION ACROSS THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 6:40 AM CST, 19 minutes before
LAZ038>040-054>058-MSZ070-071-241430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 640 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE PORTION OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SLIDELL TO LAPLACE TO MORGAN CITY. THE PARISHES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE WASHINGTON...TANGIPAHOA... ST. TAMMANY...LIVINGSTON...ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...ST. JAMES...AND ST. JAMES THE BAPTIST. IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT ACROSS PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES INCLUDING THE CITY OF MCCOMB. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INCLUDING HOUMA AND THE METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AND ALSO FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 6:40 AM CST, 19 minutes before
LAZ038>040-054>058-MSZ070-071-241430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO FIRST PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 640 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE PORTION OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SLIDELL TO LAPLACE TO MORGAN CITY. THE PARISHES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE WASHINGTON...TANGIPAHOA... ST. TAMMANY...LIVINGSTON...ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...ST. JAMES...AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT ACROSS PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES INCLUDING THE CITY OF MCCOMB. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INCLUDING HOUMA AND METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS... AND ALSO FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 6:41 AM CST, 18 minutes before
LAZ038>040-054>058-MSZ070-071-241430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 640 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE PORTION OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SLIDELL TO LAPLACE TO MORGAN CITY. THE PARISHES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE WASHINGTON...TANGIPAHOA... ST. TAMMANY...LIVINGSTON...ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...ST. JAMES...AND ST. JAMES THE BAPTIST. IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT ACROSS PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES INCLUDING THE CITY OF MCCOMB. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INCLUDING HOUMA AND THE METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AND ALSO FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 6:51 AM CST, 8 minutes before
LAZ038>040-054>058-MSZ070-071-241430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO FIRST PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 640 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE PORTION OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SLIDELL TO LAPLACE TO MORGAN CITY. THE PARISHES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH INCLUDE WASHINGTON...TANGIPAHOA... ST. TAMMANY...LIVINGSTON...ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...ST. JAMES...AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT ACROSS PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES INCLUDING THE CITY OF MCCOMB. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INCLUDING HOUMA AND METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS... AND ALSO FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 68 min |
| Jan 24, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 62 min |
| Jan 24, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 10:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 37 min |
| Jan 24, 11:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.