Alert archive / Louisiana / 1997
Weather alerts in Louisiana, March 1997
35 weather alerts in March 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 35
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 2, 199714 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, East Carroll, Lincoln, Morehouse and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:10 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, De Soto, Red River | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Cameron and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 12:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans | 20 min |
| Mar 13, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 66 min |
| Mar 25, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Grant and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 9:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 10:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 54 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 21 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Claiborne Parish7
- Webster Parish7
- Bossier Parish6
- Caddo Parish6
- Union Parish5
- Bienville Parish5
- Red River Parish4
- Lincoln Parish4
- De Soto Parish4
- East Carroll Parish3
- Morehouse Parish3
- Ouachita Parish3
- Grant Parish3
- Jackson Parish3
- Natchitoches Parish3
- Sabine Parish3
- Saint Landry Parish3
- Winn Parish3
- Plaquemines Parish3
- Jefferson Parish3
- Washington Parish3
- West Carroll Parish2
- Allen Parish2
- Beauregard Parish2
- Evangeline Parish2
- Jefferson Davis Parish2
- Lafayette Parish2
- Rapides Parish2
- Avoyelles Parish2
- Caldwell Parish2
- Catahoula Parish2
- Concordia Parish2
- Franklin Parish2
- LaSalle Parish2
- Madison Parish2
- Pointe Coupee Parish2
- Richland Parish2
- Tensas Parish2
- West Feliciana Parish2
- Orleans Parish2
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.