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Tornado Warning 41, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 22, 2003East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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: Jul 22, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County East Baton Rouge 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
Jul 22, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 1409 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

681 
WFUS54 KLIX 222145
TORNEW
LAC033-222215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
444 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...OAK HILLS PLACE...BATON ROUGE

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 438 PM CDT...BATON ROUGE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL 
  CLOUD IN THE VICINITY OF AIRLINE HIGHWAY. DOPPLER RADAR CONFIRMED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN THAT 
  LOCATION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

  A PUBLIC REPORT OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS ALSO RELAYED. 

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 3035 9112 3038 9119 3042 9121 3048 9113
          3052 9103 3047 9098 3042 9095 3035 9088
          3033 9099

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		66 min
Jul 22, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston	25 min

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.