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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 30, 1990Ascension Parish, Iberville Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1990, 9:19 PM CDT for Ascension Parish, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1990, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ascension Parish, LA, Iberville 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1990-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1990-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-302200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
340 PM CDT THU AUG 30 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR ALL OF
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM BETWEEN HAMMOND AND MCCOMB EAST BETWEEN
POPLARVILLE AND LAUREL AND CONTINUED EAST INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAM#A.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN BOGALUSA LOUISIANA AND
HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI AND EXTENDED EAST TO THE MOBILE AREA.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Aug 30, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
815 PM CDT THU AUG 30 1990

SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR AUG 30 OVER SE LOUISIANA

530PM CDT   ST. TAMMANY PARISH    HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED IN SLIDELL
                                  BY CITY POLICE AND AT NWSFO

525PM CDT   ST TAMMANY PARISH     TREES DOWNED BY WIND GUSTS IN
                                  MANDEVILLE...POLICE DEPT.

555PM CDT                         15 S MANDEVILLE WIND GUSTS TO 62 KTS
                                  ...71 MPH ON CAUSEWAY BRIDGE...NWS.

610PM CDT                         15 S MANDEVILLE WIND GUSTS TO 50 KTS
                                  63 MPH ON CAUSEWAY BRIDGE...NWS.

630-730PM  TANGIPAHOA PARISH      REPORTS OF TREES DOWN IN S PORTION
                                  OF PARISH..SHERIFFS OFFICE

645PM CDT  ORLEANS PARISH     LAKEFRONT ARPT...NEW...WIND GUST 45 KT
                              52 MPH

658PM CDT  ORLEANS PARISH6     N.O. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MSY...WIND
                              GUST 45 KT...52 MPH.

700-730 PM  ST. CHARLES PARISH   POWER LINES DOWN IN SEVERAL
                                 COMMUNITIES...EOC.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston62 min
Aug 30, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXIberia, Saint Martin62 min
Aug 30, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAssumption61 min
Aug 30, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSt. Mary58 min

Nearby

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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.