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Tornado Warning 69, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 5, 2005Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT for Plaquemines 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 5, 2005, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2005, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Plaquemines Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 051801
TORLIX
LAC075-051830-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0069.050705T1800Z-050705T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
100 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF VENICE...OR ABOUT 41 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORT
  SULPHUR...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT 
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

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.

LAT...LON 2903 8926 2914 8902 2947 8917 2937 8946

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		35 min
Jul 5, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	30 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.