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Tornado Warning 32, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 27, 1999Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1999, 4:36 PM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 19 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
May 27, 1999, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1999, 4:55 PM CDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Lafourche Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1999-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 421 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1999-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 272136 RRA
TORNEW
LAC051-057-075-272155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
436 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1999

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - SOUTHERN JEFFERSON PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - SOUTHERN LAFOURCHE PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - SOUTHERN PLAQUEMINES PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 455 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADO SOUTHEAST OF GOLDEN MEADOW MOVING
  EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...BARATARIA BAY AT 450 PM CDT.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche, Terrebonne48 min
May 27, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche31 min
May 27, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Lafourche49 min
May 27, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJefferson, Plaquemines19 min
May 27, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXPlaquemines45 min

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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.