Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2000, 2:53 PM CST for Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 15, 2000, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2000, 3:25 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Charles Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Norco, LA | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| Mar 15, 3:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Des Allemands, LA | Thunderstorm wind downed a few trees. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 152055 TORNEW LAC089-152125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 253 PM CST WED MAR 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. CHARLES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 325 PM CST * AT 253 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER DES ALLEMANDS...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... NORCO NEW SARPY HAHNVILLE DESTREHAN DES ALLEMANDS BOUTTE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.