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Tornado Warning 24, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 9, 1999Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1999, 12:57 AM CST for Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 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: Mar 9, 1999, 12:57 AM CST (06:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1999, 1:45 AM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Saint Helena 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
Mar 8, 10:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 090656 RRA
TORNEW
LAC091-090745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1257 AM CST TUE MAR 9 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A...

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - ST HELENA PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 145 AM CST

* AT 1253 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 1 MILE
  NORTHWEST OF MONTPELIER MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT
    PINE GROVE BY 105 AM
    MONTPELIER BY 110 AM

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE
OF STURDY FURNITURE. 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
Mar 8, 10:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee	34 min
Mar 8, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	West Feliciana	33 min
Mar 9, 12:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	32 min
Mar 9, 1:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	34 min
Mar 9, 1:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	32 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.