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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA

February 19, 1996Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana; Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 3:18 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana; Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 1996, 3:18 PM CST (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Hancock County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Feb 19, 3:00 PM CST, 18 minutes before

LAZ006-014-021-022028-029-032-033-043-044-052-192300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE
400 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996

...THE TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN
   NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...UNION...QUACHITA...CALDWELL...
   LASALLE...AVOYELLES...EVANGELENE...ST LANDRY...ACADIA...LAFAYETTE
   ...VERNON...

THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CONTINUES OVER
EAST CENTpRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
UNTIL 7 PM.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 19, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	64 min
Feb 19, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	64 min
Feb 19, 1:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	56 min
Feb 19, 2:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	26 min
Feb 19, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	66 min
Feb 19, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	65 min
Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	30 min
Feb 19, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	62 min
Feb 19, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.