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Tornado Warning 63, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2002, 6:49 PM CDT for Saint Charles Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 11 days. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2002, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2002, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 11 days
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 9:50 AM CST | Tornado F1 | St Rose, LA | A tornado destroyed one mobile home and heavily damaged another. Four other mobile homes received minor damage. Power lines were also knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint James | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Saint James | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Assumption | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 11 days |
| Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 11 days |
| Oct 25, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 58 min | |
| Oct 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 26 min |
| Oct 25, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 11 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.