Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 29, 2001, 11:43 AM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2001, 11:43 AM CST (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2001, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Pike County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 11:53 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Osyka, MS | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off of two businesses, blew the deck off of a trailer, and knocked down several power lines and trees, one of which fell on and damaged a mobile home. |
| Jan 29, 12:03 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Summit, MS | Several trees were blown down causing damage to automobiles. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jan 29, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
126 WFUS54 KLIX 291743 TORNEW LAC105-MSC113-291815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA ISSUED BY MOBILE AL 1143 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN LOUISIANA PIKE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1215 PM CST * AT 1139 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS FROM 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF KENTWOOD TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TANGIPAHOA...OR FROM 22 MILES SOUTH OF BROOKHAVEN TO 7 MILES NORTH OF AMITE CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO S IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3133 9048 3078 9057 3077 9039 3130 9031
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge | 26 min |
| Jan 29, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 26 min |
| Jan 29, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 58 min |
| Jan 29, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Iberville | 58 min |
| Jan 29, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint James | 58 min |
| Jan 29, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 58 min |
| Jan 29, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 61 min |
| Jan 29, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 61 min |
| Jan 29, 12:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 39 min |
| Jan 29, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 27 min |
| Jan 29, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 55 min |
| Jan 29, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist | 90 min |
| Jan 29, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 90 min |
| Jan 29, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 90 min |
| Jan 29, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 58 min |
| Jan 29, 12:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 28 min |
| Jan 29, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 55 min |
| Jan 29, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 42 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.