Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 30, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Tammany Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 072249 TORNEW LAC103-072315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 548 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF BUSH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF COVINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. 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. THJEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.
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, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 25 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 |
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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.