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Tornado Warning 69, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2002, 8:26 PM CDT for Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 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 25, 2002, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard 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 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 260126 TORNEW LAC071-075-087-260200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 825 PM CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST BANK OF ORLEANS PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA PLAQUEMINES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PORT SULPHUR...BELLE CHASSE ST. BERNARD PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CHALMETTE * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BELLE CHASSE ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHALMETTE AT 830 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 17 days |
| Oct 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 48 days |
| Oct 25, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 113 min | |
| Oct 25, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 55 days |
| Oct 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 55 days |
| Oct 25, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 55 days |
| Oct 25, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 64 min | |
| Oct 25, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 2 hr | |
| Oct 25, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 2 hr | |
| Oct 26, 9:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 83 min | |
| Oct 26, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 60 min | |
| Oct 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 85 min | |
| Oct 26, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche | 41 min |
| Oct 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 117 min | |
| Oct 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 117 min |
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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.