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Tornado Warning 101, NWS New Orleans, LA

September 23, 2005Orleans Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2005, 11:11 AM CDT for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 19 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: Sep 23, 2005, 11:11 AM CDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 2005, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Orleans 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
Sep 23, 9:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 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.

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 231612
TORLIX
LAC071-231630-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0101.050923T1611Z-050923T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1111 AM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ORLEANS PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT

* AT 1107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR 
  LAKEFRONT AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55   MPH.

  THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE ONTO LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BY 1145 AM...BUT 
  WILL CROSS OVER THE AIRPORT FIELD BEFORE THEN

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR
HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 2994 9002 3009 8991 3031 9030 3013 9042

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KLIX 231626
SVSLIX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1126 AM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

LAC071-231636-
/O.EXP.KLIX.TO.W.0101.000000T0000Z-050923T1630Z/
ORLEANS LA-
1126 AM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ORLEANS PARISH EXPIRES AT 1130 AM CDT...

THE STORM THAT PRODUCED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER LAKEFRONT AIRPORT 
HAS MOVED OVER THE MIDDLE OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 2994 9002 3009 8991 3031 9030 3013 9042

$$

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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
Sep 23, 9:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	6 hr
Sep 23, 10:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	30 min
Sep 23, 10:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Iberville, Saint James	26 min
Sep 23, 10:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James	36 min
Sep 23, 10:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	31 min
Sep 23, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	28 min
Sep 23, 11:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint John the Baptist	36 min
Sep 23, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Charles	30 min
Sep 23, 1:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Livingston	36 min
Sep 23, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	34 min
Sep 23, 2:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne	36 min
Sep 23, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	24 min
Sep 23, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint James	27 min
Sep 23, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	33 min
Sep 23, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	31 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.