Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 14, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 8:52 AM CDT for Ascension Parish, Livingston Parish, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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, 8:52 AM CDT (13:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ascension Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 031357 TORNEW LAC005-063-091-031445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 852 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. HELENA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LIVINGSTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ASCENSION PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 852 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOS IN A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST ST. HELENA TO ASCENSION PARISH...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... WHITEHALL WATSON WALKER SPRINGFIELD LIVINGSTON GONZALES DENHAM SPRINGS GREESBURG MONTPELIER GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...ABANDON IT AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD! 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 Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Helena | 67 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, 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.