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Tornado Warning 1, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 3, 2000Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:34 PM CST for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 16 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 3, 2000, 4:34 PM CST (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 4:50 PM CST
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1107 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 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
8.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 032233
TORNEW
LAC077-125-032250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
434 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - NORTHERN POINTE COUPEE PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - WESTERN WEST FELICIANA PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 450 PM CST

* AT 430 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANGOLA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN AND NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  ANGOLA AT 534 PM CST

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

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 5:01 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXTangipahoa34 min
Jan 3, 5:21 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXWashington34 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.