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Tornado Warning 42, NWS New Orleans, LA

October 3, 2002Livingston Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 10:46 AM CDT for Livingston Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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: Oct 3, 2002, 10:46 AM CDT (15:46 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2002, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

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
Oct 3, 9:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 8.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 031546 RRA
TORNEW
LAC063-105-031615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1045 AM CDT THU OCT 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LIVINGSTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  WESTERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HAMMOND

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 1035 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES 
  SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HAMMOND...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	13 hr
Oct 3, 1:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson	28 min
Oct 3, 4:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Saint Charles	7 hr
Oct 3, 4:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Charles	7 hr
Oct 3, 4:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles	8 hr
Oct 3, 6:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	4 hr
Oct 3, 8:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	4 hr
Oct 3, 9:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Assumption	3 hr
Oct 3, 10:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	34 min
Oct 3, 10:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	6 days
Oct 3, 11:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	22 days
Oct 3, 11:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	22 days

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.