Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 8:39 PM CST for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 5, 1996, 8:39 PM CST (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 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 00:00Z, 2.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 979 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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, Mar 5, 3:55 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 11:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996Every 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.