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Tornado Watch 788
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 8, 2000, 6:00 PM CST for 30 parishes in Louisiana; 15 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 2000, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| 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, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 47 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, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 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, 11:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 31 min |
| Nov 8, 11:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest and 28 more | 6 hr |
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.