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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 12, 1996Orleans Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT for Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 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
Aug 12, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Orleans Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2787 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
2787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-1.2

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany43 min
Aug 12, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist64 min
Aug 12, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHancock, Harrison54 min
Aug 12, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXHancock, Harrison25 min

Nearby

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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.