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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 27, 1994Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1994, 1:10 AM CDT for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1994, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1994, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Catahoula Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1994-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 805 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1994-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXCatahoula, Concordia59 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.