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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 17, 1996West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 8:25 PM CST for West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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 17, 1996, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County West Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 1996-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 811 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 1996-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 17, 7:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana47 min
Mar 17, 9:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany66 min
Mar 17, 10:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee57 min
Mar 17, 11:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana55 min
Mar 17, 11:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana57 min
Mar 17, 11:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Helena69 min
Mar 17, 11:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana34 min
Mar 18, 12:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana47 min
Mar 18, 12:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTangipahoa55 min
Mar 18, 12:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston47 min
Mar 18, 12:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWashington37 min
Mar 18, 1:01 AM CSTTornado WarningLIXWashington29 min
Mar 18, 2:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany37 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana47 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge47 min
Mar 18, 2:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTangipahoa35 min
Mar 17, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWilkinson62 min
Mar 17, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson70 min
Mar 17, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite63 min
Mar 17, 10:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPike55 min
Mar 18, 1:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPearl River50 min
Mar 18, 2:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHancock41 min
Mar 18, 2:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison31 min
Mar 18, 2:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson55 min
Mar 18, 2:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson40 min
Mar 18, 3:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson16 min
Mar 18, 1:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Pike40 min
Mar 18, 2:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWalthall43 min
Mar 18, 2:27 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXWalthall33 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.