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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 24, 1992Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1992, 6:32 PM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 73 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1992, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
73 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Lafourche Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany44 min
May 24, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche63 min

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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.