1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 6:00 AM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
700 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005
TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED IN AREA AND TIME. NEW WATCH BOX 130
WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 12Z TO 18Z(7AM TO 1PM) WILL UPDATE ALL
PRODUCTS TO REFLECT.
.PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...
WILL BE BRIEF AS VARIABLES ARE COMING TOGETHER QUICKLY THIS MORNING
FOR A BAD DAY. STRONG SEVERE LINE OF TS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL LA
ATTM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. SINGLE CELL DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING AHEAD
OF THE LINE IN THE WARM SECTOR AS WELL AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE BEST
AREA TO SEE TORNADIC EVENT WILL BE SE LA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A
TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10AM. FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT
AS THE LINE SLOWS DOWN AND MANY TRAINING TS DEVELOP WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN. WILL BRING ALL SEVERE TS HAZARDS IN THE HWO THIS MORNING.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL EXIST THROUGH TODAY AND TONIGHT.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
MCB 76 65 72 55 / 80 30 10 10
BTR 78 65 72 55 / 80 30 00 10
MSY 76 67 76 60 / 80 30 00 00
GPT 72 68 72 63 / 90 50 00 00
&&
.LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LA...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 PM FOR ALL SE LA.
FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 PM FOR ALL SE LA.
MS...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 PM FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN MISS.
FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 PM FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN MISS.
SE LA AND MS COASTAL WATERS...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ALL COASTAL
WATERS INCLUDING LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS THROUGH
TONIGHT.
&&
17HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 600 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005 LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-061700- AMITE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-HANCOCK- HARRISON-IBERVILLE-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE- ORLEANS-PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST. CHARLES-ST. HELENA- ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA- UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD- UPPER TERREBONNE-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA- WILKINSON- 600 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH 10 AM... ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH 6 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING IN ADVANCE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TODAY INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THROUGH THE MORNING. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE TODAY WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS BEING ISOLATED TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL... HEAVY AND PERSISTENT RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND SPREAD EASTWARD INTO THE MISSISSIPPI COAST DURING THE AFTERNOON. GENERALLY THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS BETWEEN FIVE AND EIGHT INCHES POSSIBLE IF STORMS TRACK OVER THE SAME AREAS DURING THE DAY. THE PRIMARY TIME OF CONCERN IS BETWEEN 6 AM AND 6 PM TODAY. RIVER FLOODING... SEVERAL AREA RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD ALREADY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGREVATE THE FLOODING PROBLEM TODAY AND NEW CREST HEIGHTS MAY BE COMPUTED IN ADDITIONAL FORECASTS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER STATEMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLE RIVER FLOODING DUE TO ANTICIPATED HEAVY RAINS WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA MONDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION IF NEEDED. 17
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado briefly touched down in the Line Creek community destroying 5 sheds, damaging a house, uprooting 3 trees, and knocking over a gas tank.
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