Louisiana Storm Report

[ncupsscweather]

Storm looks to be heading off to the North and heading toward Lutcher, Louisiana...

[ncupsscweather]

A SECOND FATALITY WAS FOUND IN NEW IBERIA. THERE ARE CURRENTLY THREE INDIVIDUALS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. ONE OF THE THREE CHILDREN HAS BEEN FOUND, BUT DISPOSITION UNKNOW (LCH)

[LaPlaceFF]

Storm looks to be heading off to the North and heading toward Lutcher, Louisiana...

That's near my family!!!

[CrazyC83]

Yikes!!! I just went to check - and this looks REALLY bad!!! Shows it doesn't need to be an outbreak to be bad...just an isolated tornado it looks like...

First tornado of 2007 turns out to be a killer

[ncupsscweather]

yeah i know this isn't a good way to start off the new year.

[CajunMama]

actually the iberia tornado was the probably the second tornado. The first (likely) tornado was in lawtell which destroyed a mobile home, kinda north/northeast of lafayette.

[wxmann_91]

Really bad... really really bad. Seriously, never thought the first tornado would be a deadly one, in WT 1! That's pretty sad... hope the rest are okay.

SPC mesoanalysis really did not show amazing parameters with nearly no instability and relatively weak low level shear for winter.

It never even got that bad here. Just some lightning and nothing more. I seen much worse than this before. On Jan 2, 1999 a tornado hit my neighborhood while I was still sleeping around 6 a.m.

Interestingly, a tornado hit a mobile home park and killed a person on that exact same date. Goes to show that January can still harbor some surprise tornadic events.

[cajungal]

Yeah, the tornado that hit January 2, 1999 barely missed my house. Debris was all over our front yard. Neighbors fence was blown down, another neighbors roof torn off. The neighborhood about a mile up the highway from us was badly damaged. The weather is starting up again. The sky is lightning up like crazy. May be a long night.

[wxmann_91]

The good news is that the back edge of the rain has already passed New Iberia. Threat is over for them.

Bad news is that any increase in low level shear could potentially bring on a potentially very dangerous situation across southern MS and AL. I think Mesoanalysis is underdone with CINH (convective inhibition), but LFC's (level of free convection) are pretty low. CAPEs are only around 500 j/kg but storms are already intensifying in southern Louisiana once again, probably due to the nocturnal increase in the strength of the low level jet.

[PTrackerLA]

NWS Storm Report:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1152 PM CST THU JAN 04 2007

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0355 PM TORNADO NEW IBERIA 30.01N 91.82W
01/04/2007 IBERIA LA BROADCAST MEDIA

*** 3 FATAL, 15 INJ *** A THIRD FATALITY HAS BEEN
REPORTED WITH THE NEW IBERIA TORNADO.

[southerngale]

Omgosh...that's awful.

[Bunkertor]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU !

Though, as i read, news are not that good.

But: Tornadowatch at 1 am early january...Is that a "normal" developement ?

Has any Fujita-rating been given ?

======================
TORNADO WARNING
MSC061-067-050730-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0002.070105T0626Z-070105T0730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1226 AM CST FRI JAN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1226 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF
SANDERSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDERSVILLE BY 1240 AM CST
HEIDELBERG BY 1250 AM CST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS 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 3178 8933 3161 8926 3187 8891 3221 8894
3206 8930

[wxmann_91]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU ! Thanks

Though, as i read, news are not that good. Agree

But: Tornadowatch at 1 am early january...Is that a "normal" developement ? It's counterintuitive, but if one were to compare summer and winter and which had more nocturnal tornado watches, winter would win. The low level jet is up to 50 kt now which will promote rapid destabilization and increased low level shear/helicity. So, it's not "normal" per say, but a dynamic storm system w/ instability - and tornado watches at 1 AM are possible.

Has any Fujita-rating been given ? No. They will probably survey tomorrow after daybreak.

[Bunkertor]

Interesting. I keep on watching for a while. Counterintuitive means forced by jetstream and gulf-inflow ?
OK, i just got up and must remember President Bush in germany. He said " as you say Guten Morgen ! "
So i say Guten Morgen! everybody.

update: In last hours Hamburg had to welcome the first stormflood of the year with 5 ft. above normal-high-tide. Within a few days we face new records of 59 °F

[Brent]

NWS Storm Report:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1152 PM CST THU JAN 04 2007

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0355 PM TORNADO NEW IBERIA 30.01N 91.82W
01/04/2007 IBERIA LA BROADCAST MEDIA

*** 3 FATAL, 15 INJ *** A THIRD FATALITY HAS BEEN
REPORTED WITH THE NEW IBERIA TORNADO.

and now there's a tornado watch here til 10am(I didn't expect this earlier). Great. Just great.

[HurricaneBill]

Will the Enhanced Fujita scale be used now or not yet?

[ncupsscweather]

Tornado Warning
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
125 AM CST FRI JAN 5 2007

MSC099-050745-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070105T0745Z/
NESHOBA MS-
125 AM CST FRI JAN 5 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM CST FOR NESHOBA
COUNTY...

AT 125 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PHILADELPHIA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL NESHOBA COUNTY AT 140 AM CST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS 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 3270 8918 3271 8892 3291 8894 3293 8912

The storm cell that has prompted this Warning for " NESHOBA COUNTY,MS " is headed off to the Northeast toward Macon & Brooksville, Mississippi.

[ncupsscweather]

Check this out.. Radar images of the Tornado that struck Louisiana today.

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=community

[ncupsscweather]

NEW IBERIA, Louisiana (AP) -- Two people are dead after suspected tornadoes touched down during intense storms in southern Louisiana, authorities said Thursday.

The twisters, which were reported in eastern Iberia Parish just before 4 p.m., tore off roofs and ripped seven mobile homes from their foundations, Sheriff Sid Hebert said. The victims' names were not immediately released.

At least 15 people were taken to area hospitals.

The tornado reports came in as a severe band of storms hit the parish, leaving roads flooded. Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency in the parishes of Acadia, Allen, Sabine and Vermillion.

In New Orleans, crews were dispatched to clean drains and prepare for possible flooding ahead of a weather system that could drop several inches of rain on an area that has been drenched in the past two weeks.

A flash flood watch was in effect for portions of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi through Friday morning. The National Weather Service forecast 2 to 4 inches of rain, with locally heavy amounts possible, creating potential flooding.

While stormy weather this time of year isn't unusual, this latest system comes after two storms that helped bring December's rainfall total in New Orleans to more than 10 inches, nearly twice the normal average.

One of the storms, just before Christmas, caused widespread flooding in parts of the city and neighboring Jefferson Parish, and raised concerns about how well the area, hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, would fare in another hurricane.

[ncupsscweather]

Tornado Warning's have been issued for
Central Sumter County,AL until 3:00am
Pickens County, AL until 3:15am
Green County, AL until 3:15

anyone in these areas should take shelter and stay safe.