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Tornado Warning 32, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT for Jefferson Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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 9, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 092019 TORNEW LAC051-075-092045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 315 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA PLAQUEMINES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF LAFITTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON PARISH AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF BERTRANDVILLE... BELAIR...AND IRONTON IN PLAQUEMINES PARISH. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWESFT 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 15 min |
| Jun 9, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.