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New-Orleans-Forecast calls for possible severe storms Wednesday afternoon/evening

But the big thing that controls the intensity of tornadoes and in some sense whether we ever get a tornado at all out of a tornado has to do with how the wind profile in atmosphere change, what we call the wind shear. and that may actually decrease in the future. what we have seen historically over the last 50 or 60 years has been an increase in the very ability of tornadoes occurring. we have fewer days per year now where tornadoes occur, but we have more big days that they occur. and weve also...

Plaquemines parish. im concerned about grand isle. some of the warmest water on our planet, unled fuel to the highest octane that you can get. sometimes these smaller compact storms can provide more of a punch than some of the larger ones but were going to watch this wind profile. at the 11:00 p.m. advisory well be able to share the track. but that puts the strongest winds on the eastern flank for areas such as new orleans up to baton rouge. lets hope on the western side, good hundred miles per ...

Lets talk about the winds. about 5:00, 6:00 in the morning it will be moving into grand isle and reaching the northern part of louisiana later in the afternoon. were expected sustained winds at 130. you look at the wind profile, and weve seen a little trend in the track, but well get a new one at 11:00, were looking at some of the worse eyewall winds up towards baton rouge. the circulation is not the eye. its much lower, but if we can keep it away from lake charles, thats some good news, too. it...

Katrina had a wind profile that was four to five times larger than this one. with the search and the levees breaking, it was obviously a mess. 1800 people lost their lives. these are the model differences. theres not much of a difference. 1:00 p.m. local time in the afternoon, the european model is a little slower but pretty much in the same location. as we get this information in from the hurricane hunters in the aircraft, well have a better idea to see if that trend continues eastward, which w...

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Furiously jacqui. what is happening? >> just a very unstable atmosphere. we have warm air meeting up with cool air and dry air mixing in. we have a favorable wind profile thats causing all of that rotation, why weve seen so many tornadoes. severe weather widespread across the deep south yesterday. we had 370 reports of severe weather. that includes tornadoes and includes winds in excess of 60 miles per hour that caused extensive damage. that also includes hail reports an inch or larger in diamet...

Hours because so often it happens overnight. if there are people trapped, emergency responders can get there and they have a better chance helping out people. >> it is more unusual. usually it is the late afternoon, early evening. things have been kicking since this morning. a lot has to do with a favorable wind profile, strong upper level winds and nudges into that area. weve seen that throughout the morning and afternoon already. >> thank you, jacqui jeras. in the case of one particular town...