Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1988, 9:47 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1988, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1988, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tangipahoa Parish, LA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Boothville, LA (KBVE), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.