Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 7:53 AM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min. 5 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 7:53 AM CDT (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | (Btr)Ryan Fld Baton, LA | Several trees were blown down on houses. |
| Apr 3, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Denham Spgs, LA | A tornado touched down briefly in Denham Springs knocking down several large pine trees and stipping large limbs from trees. Several house roof s and cars were damaged by fallen trees and limbs. |
| Apr 3, 8:40 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Zachary, LA | A tornado touched down briefly causing damage to several houses, barns, a mobile home. A large tree also was toppled onto a house. |
| Apr 3, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Liverpool, LA | A tornado touched down along an intermittent path damaging several mobile homes and house roofs. |
| Apr 3, 9:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Denham Spgs, LA | Trees were blown down along Louisiana Highway 190 from Denham Springs to Holden. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 031254 TORNEW LAC033-037-063-091-125-MSC005-031400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 753 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ST. HELENA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA WEST FELICIANA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA EAST FELICIANA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LIVINGSTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AMITE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 753 AM CDT SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPILLMAN TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. FRANCISVILLE TO 14 MILES WEST OF BAKER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... ZACHARY ST. FRANCISVILLE JACKSON DENHAM SPRINGS CLINTON BATON ROUGE BAKER GO TO A S MALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, West Feliciana | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge | 80 min |
| Apr 3, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 80 min |
| Apr 3, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 7:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, West Feliciana | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint Helena | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 9:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 9:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Saint James | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans | 50 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.