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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 25, 1992Avoyelles Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1992, 7:39 AM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1992, 7:39 AM CST (13:39 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1992, 8:45 AM CST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 25, 7:50 AM CSTHail 0.75Avoyelles, LA
Mar 25, 8:10 AM CSTHail 1.75Pointe Coupee, LA
Mar 25, 8:12 AM CSTHail 1.75West Feliciana, LA
Mar 25, 8:25 AM CSTHail 0.75Pointe Coupee, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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, Mar 25, 7:03 AM CST, 36 minutes before
LAZ006-008-009-251500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
705 AM CST WED MAR 25 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...

RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
FROM SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA EXTENDING ACROSS PARTS OF AVOYELLES...
CATAHOULA AND CONCORDIA PARISHES.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
SHOWN FROM NEAR VICK IN AVOYELLES PARISH TO FERRIDAY AND VIDALIA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE AFFECTED PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY
HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL
HOURS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 8:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana53 min
Mar 25, 8:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge57 min
Mar 25, 9:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Livingston57 min
Mar 25, 10:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint James, Saint John the Baptist64 min
Mar 25, 10:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Livingston37 min
Mar 25, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Orleans, Saint Charles59 min
Mar 25, 11:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXOrleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.