Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS New Orleans, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
750 AM CST TUE NOV 7 1989

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR THE METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS
   AREA...

AT 725 AM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
RAIN JUST WEST OF THE NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SPREADING
NORTHEAST OUT OVER LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION PERIODS OF INTENSE DOWNPOURS
MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN
PORTIONS OF THE CITY AS WELL AS ACROSS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND THE
CAUSEWAY BRIDGE. AS YOU ARE TRAVELING TO WORK THIS MORNING BE ALERT
FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND THE POTENTIAL TRAFFIC HAZARD THEY MAY
CAUSE.

PATCHY LIGHT RAIN AND WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUED ACROSS NORTH PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...EXTREME
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...AS WELL AS
EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING IN A BAND
STRETCHING FROM WEST OF SLIDELL EAST ONVER THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND TO
JUST SOUTH OF GULFPORT...AND WEST OF THE METRO NEW ORLEANS AREA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
850 AM CST TUE NOV 7 1989

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS
   AREA...

AT 825 AM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
NEAR NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXTENDING EAST NEAR LAKE
BORGNE. HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED SOME STREET FLOODING OVER LOW LYING
AREA OF NEW ORLEANS. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PERIODS OF INTENSE
DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL AS
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST
LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN MC COMB AND MORGAN CITY
EXTENDING EAST BETWEEN LAUREL AND GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
945 AM CST TUE NOV 7 1989

...RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AREA...

AT 925 AM RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE BORGNE. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE MOVE TO THE EAST OF THE CITY...RAIN SHOWERS ARE STILL OCCURRING
OVER METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AND MAY PRODUCE SOME LOW LYING STREET
FLOODING AS THE STORMS MOVE TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES.

ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST
LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

URBAN FLOOD FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
950 AM CST TUE NOV 7 1989

...HEAVY RAIN PELTS THE NEW ORLEANS METROPOLITAN AREA...

DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED
ALONG A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH LYING EAST WEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS 1 TO 3
INCHES LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA. WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN
REPORTED ACROSS THE METRO AREA ALONG WITH WATER ENTERING A FEW HOMES
IN LOW LYING AREAS OF WEST JEFFERSON PARISH.

AT LATE MORNING SATELLITE AND RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM
IN ST BERNARD MOVING INTO THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND. HOWEVER ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING JUST TO THE WEST OF METRO AREA. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA AND PRODUCE PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN DRIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...
AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
FLOODED ROADWAYS.