1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 7, 7:43 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 743 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 .SECOND UPDATE... LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO GENERATE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY WHERE LOCAL TRAINING OCCURS FOR A BRIEF TIME. ALSO...A FEW BOWING LINE SEGMENTS AND MERGING CELLS HAVE BEEN NOTED ON RADAR OVER SOUTHWEST/SOUTH CENTRAL MS AND EXTENDING JUST DOWN ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO ADJACENT LA PARISHES. NO REPORTS OF ANY STRONG TO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN RECEIVED AT THIS TIME...BUT A FEW STORMS HAVE PRODUCED FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND ONE HOUR RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR. 00Z SLIDELL SOUNDING INDICATED DECENT SHEAR PROFILES WITH 0-3KM SRH OF 232 M2/S2...SO AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OR A BRIEF TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. A CAP JUST ABOVE 700 MB IS OBVIOUSLY BEING ERODED AND MOISTENED ALONG THE CONVECTIVE LINE JUST AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. HAVE UPDATED THE GRIDS YET AGAIN TO EXPAND THE 100 PERCENT POPS EAST SINCE THE LINE HAS SOLIDIFIED AND STRENGTHENED MORE THE LAST COUPLE HOURS. RAISED POPS TO LIKELY AROUND NEW ORLEANS AND ON THE MS COAST SINCE SIGNIFICANT ENERGY WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSLATE EAST. && .PREVIOUS UPDATE... RADAR SHOWS SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHWEST MS AND EAST CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL LA...AHEAD OF THE SURFACE COLD FRONT. UPDATED GRIDS TO RAISE POPS TO LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL ALONG TO ABOUT 60 MILES AHEAD OF THIS LINE. UVV WILL CONTINUE TO BE ENHANCED BY THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER JET WHICH EXTENDS NORTHEAST FROM THE LOWER MS VALLEY. ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT EAST DURING THE EVENING...SO DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY SIGNIFICANT DURATION OF HEAVY RAINFALL. ALSO TWEAKED POPS DOWN OVER THE NORTH AND WEST ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO SATURDAY AS DRIER AIR WORKS INTO THE FORECAST AREA. && .PREVIOUS FULL DISCUSSION... LINE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FINALLY BEGINNING TO NEAR THE NW SECTIONS OF THE AREA ALONG THE WARM FRONT. EVEN 18Z MODEL RUNS NOT SHOWING MUCH MORE THAN TRAILING END OF ENERGY OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. SCATTERED POPS APPEAR TO BE SUFFICIENT. NW SECTIONS...IE MCB/BTR WILL HAVE GREATEST SHOT AT ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS THEY WILL BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE GREATER INSTABILITY. SE SECTIONS AND COASTAL WATERS MAINLY SCATTERED SHOWERS. MAIN LOW PULLS NE ON SAT TAKING ENERGY WITH IT AND ANY LINGERING POPS. HOWEVER...NOTE ONLY A BRIEF LOWERING OF THE TEMPERATURES FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AS THE FRONT WILL NOT MAKE A GREAT OVERALL IMPACT AS SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS AND TEMPERATURES CREEP BACK UP A TAD. NO GREAT PATTERN CHANGES AFTER THIS UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF THE FORECAST AS ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES AGAIN NEXT THU INTO FRI ALLOWING FOR AGAIN ANOTHER COOL DOWN POSSIBLE. && .UPDATED POINT TEMP/POPS... MCB 55 66 47 72 /100 20 00 00 BTR 60 70 50 74 /100 20 00 00 MSY 63 71 56 73 / 60 10 00 00 GPT 63 70 52 72 / 60 30 00 00 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. MS...NONE. SE LA AND MS COASTAL WATERS...NONE. && 22
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 645 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-081200- 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- 645 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LINE OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES IN AN HOUR OR LESS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PULLS AWAY FROM THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .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. 22
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 650 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 MSZ070-071-080130- PIKE-WALTHALL- 650 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY... AT 650 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS UPWARDS TO 50 MPH NEAR SUMMIT.MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TO THE EAST AT NEARLY 35 MPH. INTERESTS IN NORTHERN PIKE AND WALTHALL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS SHOULD STRENGTHENING OF THE SYSTEM TAKE PLACE. 24
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 727 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 LAZ038-MSZ070-080200- PIKE-TANGIPAHOA- 727 PM CST FRI JAN 7 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GILLSBURG MOVING TOWARD OSYKA AND KENTWOOD... AT 725 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA STATE LINE JUST SOUTH OF GILLSBURG IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST AMITE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MPH. STRONG AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE OSYKA AND KENTWOOD AREAS THROUGH 745 PM. INTERESTS IN SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY AND NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IN THE EVENT THIS STORMS INTENSIFIES. 24
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado that briefly touched down in southwest Walthall County in the Brockdale, Purvis, and Les Blackwell Road area knocked down several trees and a few fences, shifted a trailer off of its blocks, and caused minor roof damage to a few structures.
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