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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 29, 1993Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1993, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1993, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Tammany Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 1993-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1800 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 1993-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
1800 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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
Jul 29, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany46 min
Jul 29, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTangipahoa68 min
Jul 29, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension, Iberville64 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.