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Tornado Warning 63, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 17, 2005Ascension Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2005, 1:39 PM CDT for Ascension Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 17, 2005, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2005, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Ascension Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Livingston 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
Jun 17, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 171838
TORLIX
LAC005-033-063-171915-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0063.050617T1839Z-050617T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
139 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ASCENSION PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  LIVINGSTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 137 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  PRAIRIEVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF GONZALES...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WHITEHALL BY 210 PM CDT

DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER. OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE
PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE
TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST
RESORT.

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

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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

LAT...LON 3048 9103 3030 9107 3020 9069 3042 9063

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	33 min
Jun 17, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	31 min
Jun 17, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville	32 min
Jun 17, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	43 min
Jun 17, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		59 min
Jun 17, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	27 min
Jun 17, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche	41 min
Jun 17, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Saint Charles	40 min
Jun 17, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		97 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		63 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.