Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 10:33 PM CST for Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1996, 10:33 PM CST (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pointe Coupee Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 11:25 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Morganza, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 57 min |
| Mar 17, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 69 min |
| Mar 17, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 12:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 1:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 35 min |
| Mar 17, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 62 min |
| Mar 17, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 70 min |
| Mar 17, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 63 min |
| Mar 17, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 40 min |
| Mar 18, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 16 min |
| Mar 18, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 40 min |
| Mar 18, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 2:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.