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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 12, 1995Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1995, 10:11 AM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 10:11 AM CDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2320 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 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.8
Supercell composite
16.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston2 hr
May 12, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, Iberville67 min
May 12, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension24 min
May 12, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa95 min
May 12, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany102 min
May 12, 5:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAvoyelles, Saint Landry55 min
May 12, 6:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAvoyelles, Saint Landry59 min
May 12, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee44 min
May 12, 7:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry66 min
May 12, 8:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAvoyelles, Saint Landry67 min
May 12, 9:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAvoyelles64 min
May 12, 10:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana64 min
May 12, 10:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberia, Saint Martin67 min
May 12, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee42 min
May 12, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville, West Baton Rouge63 min
May 12, 11:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAssumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary63 min
May 12, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAssumption, Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary67 min
May 12, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche, Terrebonne64 min
May 12, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXAssumption, St. Mary, Terrebonne25 min
May 12, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche66 min
May 12, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTerrebonne66 min
May 12, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche59 min
May 12, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana53 min
May 12, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana64 min
May 12, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Lafourche64 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.