Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2002, 12:35 PM CDT for Livingston Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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
- Apr 8, 2002, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2002, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Livingston Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 081735 TORNEW LAC063-105-081800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1235 PM CDT MON APR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HAMMOND * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF HAMMOND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SPRINGFIELD AT 1240 PM CDT HAMMOND...PONCHATOULA AT 1255 PM CDT ROBERT AT 100 PM 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 3040 9069 3057 9072 3066 9026 3043 9026
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 113 min | |
| Apr 8, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 113 min | |
| Apr 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 95 min |
| Apr 8, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 110 min |
| Apr 8, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 56 min |
| Apr 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 1 more | 89 min |
| Apr 8, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 115 min | |
| Apr 8, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 2 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 22 min |
| Apr 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 90 days |
| Apr 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 2 hr | |
| Apr 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 2 hr |
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.