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Tornado Warning 49, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT for Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 31, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Bernard Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 312350 TORNEW LAC087-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 649 PM CDT THU AUG 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. BERNARD PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER VIOLET...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF CHALMETTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. 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, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 39 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 |
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.