Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 45, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 31, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tangipahoa Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 3:36 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer, LA | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 312007 TORNEW LAC105-312045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 306 PM CDT THU AUG 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AMITE...HAMMOND * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 305 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF WILMER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF FRANKLINTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILMER AT 315 PM CDT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AMITE AT 335 PM CDT OVER INDEPENDENCE...9 MILES NORTH OF HAMMOND AT 345 PM CDT SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 48 min |
| Aug 31, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 60 min |
| Aug 31, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 66 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana | 63 min |
| Aug 31, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 55 min |
| Aug 31, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Iberville | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 57 min |
| Aug 31, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 37 min |
| Aug 31, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Bernard | 26 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.