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Tornado Warning 28, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 7, 2001East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 1:35 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 7, 2001, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1900 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

271 
WFUS54 KLIX 071837
TORNEW
LAC033-071900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
135 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BAKER...BATON ROUGE

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 130 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD EXTENDING 
  BELOW A THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN BAKER AND CENTRAL...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BAKER. 

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.

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

LAT...LON 3040 9115 3051 9098 3060 9098 3061 9094
          3063 9094 3065 9091 3072 9093 3072 9107
          3059 9122 3055 9123 3052 9128 3052 9119

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Terrebonne	90 min
Jun 7, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne	4 hr
Jun 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	52 min
Jun 7, 10:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne	4 hr
Jun 7, 10:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, West Baton Rouge	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist	15 min
Jun 7, 11:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	24 min
Jun 7, 12:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	34 min
Jun 7, 1:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	116 min
Jun 7, 2:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, West Baton Rouge	4 hr
Jun 7, 2:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Terrebonne	4 hr
Jun 7, 2:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	2 hr
Jun 7, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	27 min

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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.