Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings / 2016

Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, May 2016

9 tornado warnings in May 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
9
Busiest day
May 20, 20168 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 3:34 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHAcadia, Lafayette26 min
May 19, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHVermilion23 min
May 19, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXAssumption30 min
May 19, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXAscension, Assumption, Saint James33 min
May 19, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, Livingston33 min
May 19, 10:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint John the Baptist13 min
May 19, 10:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXSaint Tammany18 min
May 19, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXPlaquemines, Saint Bernard29 min
May 19, 11:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXPlaquemines, Saint Bernard25 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.