Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 30, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2002, 1:06 AM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2002, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lafourche Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
672 WFUS54 KLIX 260606 TORNEW LAC057-109-260630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 105 AM CDT THU SEP 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFOURCHE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GALLIANO TERREBONNE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1259 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALLIANO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MONTEGUT...CHAUVIN AT 130 AM CDT 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 2930 9032 2946 9023 2965 9060 2945 9072
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles | 6 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche | 109 min |
| Sep 25, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 34 min |
| Sep 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 40 min |
| Sep 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 40 min |
| Sep 26, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 24 min |
| Sep 26, 1:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 7 days |
| Sep 26, 2:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 39 min |
| Sep 26, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 7:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 6 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.