Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 29, 2001, 12:18 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 12:18 PM CST (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2001, 12:45 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tangipahoa Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 12:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponchatoula, LA | A few mobile homes and houses were damaged by thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 291821 COR TORNEW LAC105-291845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED... TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA ISSUED BY MOBILE AL 1220 PM CST MON JAN 29 2001 ...CORRECTED FOR TORNADO WARNING ISSUANCE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1245 PM CST * AT 1219 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF PONCHATOULA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF... SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA...CENTRAL TANGIPAHOA AND EASTERN TANGIPAHOA COUNTIES. 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 3049 9053 3032 9039 3049 9026 3071 9029
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, 11:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 32 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, 12:35 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 |
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.