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 (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/02/02/nola.tornado/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 -