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Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 3:45 PM CST 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
- Feb 5, 2004, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 4:15 PM CST
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 11:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
795
WFUS54 KLIX 052145
TORNEW
LAC033-052215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
344 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004
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...ZACHARY...BAKER
* UNTIL 415 PM CST
* AT 342 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BAKER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BAKER...ZACHARY AND
GREENWELLS SPRINGS.
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 3050 9118 3061 9132 3071 9121 3070 9090
3045 9118
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 28 min |
| Feb 4, 7:20 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 40 min | |
| Feb 4, 10:15 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 60 min | |
| Feb 4, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 27 min |
| Feb 4, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 46 min |
| Feb 5, 9:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 9:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 66 min |
| Feb 5, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 49 min |
| Feb 5, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 31 min |
| Feb 5, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 23 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.