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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 25, 1992Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1992, 11:38 AM CST for Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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, 11:38 AM CST (17:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1992, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 25, 12:06 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Plaquemines, 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, 4 hours 35 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.

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 9:20 AM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before

LAZ010-013-014-251615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
919 AM CST WED MAR 25 1992

AT 915 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI TO BATON ROUGE.
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED NUMEROUS REPORTS OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
IN WEST FELICIANA AND POINT COUPEE PARISHES EARLIER THIS MORNING.

RADAR CONTINUES SHOW MORE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING JUST TO THE WEST OF
BATON ROUGE. IT IS LIKELY THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS MAY BE
NEEDED FOR TANGIPAHOA...WASHINGTON AND ST TAMMANY PARISHES WITHIN THE
NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.

A SEVERE rTHUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST
LOUISIANA UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON.

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:14 AM CST, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 7:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Avoyelles, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	66 min
Mar 25, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	53 min
Mar 25, 8:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	57 min
Mar 25, 9:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	57 min
Mar 25, 10:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	64 min
Mar 25, 10:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	37 min
Mar 25, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Charles	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992 Every 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.