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Tornado Warning 18, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 9:48 AM CDT for Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 9:48 AM CDT (14:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Charles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 031451 TORNEW LAC089-031545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 948 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. CHARLES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1045 AM CDT * AT 948 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF THIBODAUX...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... NORCO NEW SARPY HAHNVILLE DESTREHAN BOUTTE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...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, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.