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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 5, 1996Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 11:25 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 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, 11:25 PM CST (05:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 12:15 AM CST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tangipahoa Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1008 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 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1008 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 8:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana51 min
Mar 5, 9:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville44 min
Mar 5, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge60 min
Mar 5, 10:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville31 min
Mar 5, 10:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena63 min
Mar 5, 9:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite34 min
Mar 5, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWalthall35 min
Mar 5, 11:00 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXWalthall30 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.