Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS New Orleans, LA

Issued

Oct 13, 2001, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)

Expired

Oct 13, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS New Orleans, LA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Plaquemines Parish, LA

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.

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WUUS54 KLIX 132237
SVRNEW
LAC075-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
535 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PLAQUEMINES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORT SULPHUR

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORT SULPHUR...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PORT SULPHUR AND 
BURAS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED 
WARNING.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY 
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 2933 8999 2919 8985 2933 8931 2967 8960

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 13, 5:00 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
500 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

SEE THE ZONES. THINGS WILL IMPROVE RAPIDLY ONCE THE TROUGH AND VORT
MAX MOVES THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.

MCB UU 057/076 048/078 052 17800
BTR UU 060/080 051/078 053 17800
MSY UU 063/078 058/078 058 17800
GPT UU 063/078 053/077 054 17+00

.NEW...SMALL CRAFT ADZY KPQL TO ATCHAFALAYA RVR.
LA...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING EXTREME SOUTHEAST COASTAL PARISHES UNTIL
MIDNIGHT.
MS...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING FOR HANCOCK...AND A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH
IS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND HARRISON COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

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In the hours before

LAZ034>038-046>050-056>060-065>067-MSZ068>070-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
235 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM
MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI TO HOUMA LOUISIANA. THE LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THIS AREA.

THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
AND FOR THE COASTAL MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES UNTIL 6 PM CDT.

LAZ064-LAZ067>070-MSZ080>082-132300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
525 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR PLAQUEMINES
...LOWER JEFFERSON...ST BERNARD...LOWER LAFOURCHE PARISHES AND FOR
HANCOCK...HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI.

ALL OTHER PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ARE NO LONGER IN THE
TORNADO WATCH.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.