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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 2, 1993Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1993, 11:48 AM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
May 2, 1993, 11:48 AM CDT (16:48 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1993, 12:55 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Pointe Coupee Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1993-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1177 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1993-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
1177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.8

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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.