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Tornado Warning 36, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 22, 2000Orleans Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 22, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Orleans Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 
WFUS54 KLIX 230004 COR
TORNEW

LAC071-230030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
704 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ORLEANS PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 702 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER LAKE CATHERINE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EDEN
  ISLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	25 min
Jul 22, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	54 min
Jul 22, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	54 min
Jul 22, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles	55 min
Jul 22, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	55 min
Jul 22, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche	45 min
Jul 23, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	58 min
Jul 23, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	58 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.