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Tornado Warning 59, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 8, 2000Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 11:44 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 11:44 PM CST (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tangipahoa 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
Nov 8, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 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.

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: 709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 090545
TORNEW

LAC105-090615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1144 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HAMMOND

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST

* AT 1138 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER HAMMOND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
 LORANGER BY MIDNIGHT CST

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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3039 9042 3040 9042 3043 9035 3050 9026
          3072 9026 3079 9028 3072 9036 3061 9045
          3057 9051 3050 9055 3040 9042

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge	28 min
Nov 8, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana	31 min
Nov 8, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	West Baton Rouge	35 min
Nov 8, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	33 min
Nov 8, 10:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	27 min
Nov 8, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche	29 min
Nov 8, 10:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	67 min
Nov 8, 11:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Charles	19 min
Nov 8, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	57 min
Nov 8, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche	57 min
Nov 8, 11:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	41 min
Nov 9, 12:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	27 min
Nov 9, 12:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	29 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.