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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS New Orleans, LA

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

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 7:09 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1995, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

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

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 1995-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2374 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 1995-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
2374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa66 min
Jul 13, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana57 min
Jul 13, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana, West Feliciana69 min
Jul 13, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.