No Breaks for New Orleans - Tornado

[Mike Peregrine]

New Orleans is not allowed to take a break and start rebuilding these days, as a possible tornado has apparently done some fairly significant damage to the airport and homes nearby.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/02/02/nola...nado/index.html

 

[John Farley]

At least two tornado damage paths now confirmed, including one with F2 damage in the city of New Orleans. Still not clear whether the number of tornadoes was 2 or 3, as survey is continuing to determine whether two of the currently identified swaths were continuous or separate. Info available at:

http://kamala.cod.edu/la/latest.nwus54.KLIX.html

 

[Bob Schafer]

http://www.nola.com/

 

[Matt Haworth]

Does anyone have any radar images from around the time of the tornado?

 

[Jeff Snyder]

NWS damage survey conducted, indicating two F1s and one F2. Note that the second and third tornado paths may be consolidated:

0234 AM     TORNADO          NEW ORLEANS ARMSTRONG A 29.98N 90.25W   

02/02/2006  F1               JEFFERSON          LA   NWS STORM SURVEY  



0239 AM     TORNADO          METAIRIE                30.00N 90.18W   

02/02/2006  F1               JEFFERSON          LA   NWS STORM SURVEY  



0243 AM     TORNADO          NEW ORLEANS             29.97N 90.08W   

02/02/2006  F2               ORLEANS            LA   NWS STORM SURVEY

Read more about the assessment at http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KLIX/0602022247.nwus54.html

 

[Mike Peregrine]

I hadn't realized the extent of the damage until seeing video this morning - - - of course, it's tough to separate Katrina damage from tornado damage at this point, but it looks like these tornadoes were not of the weak variety. It's crazy - but when I saw the threat for the gulf coast on Wednesday the thought actually crossed my mind that it would be really discouraging at this point for NOLA to get a tornado -