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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 16, 1995Orleans Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1995, 5:45 PM CST for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 1995, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1995, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Orleans Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 315 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 2:07 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 5:15 PM CST, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	49 min
Mar 15, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Terrebonne	55 min
Mar 15, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	65 min
Mar 16, 12:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, St. Mary	64 min
Mar 16, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Terrebonne	62 min
Mar 16, 1:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, Saint James	61 min
Mar 16, 1:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	59 min
Mar 16, 1:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension	69 min
Mar 16, 1:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson	69 min
Mar 16, 2:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	67 min
Mar 16, 2:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption	67 min
Mar 16, 3:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Bernard	64 min
Mar 16, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena	63 min
Mar 16, 4:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist	66 min
Mar 16, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	61 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.