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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 29, 1997Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1997, 4:41 PM CDT for Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 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
Jul 29, 1997, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2825 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.3
Supercell composite
-2.3

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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
Jul 28, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany, Washington34 min
Jul 29, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston42 min

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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.