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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 28, 1998East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 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
Apr 28, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 1998-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Apr 28, 9:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche33 min
Apr 28, 11:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Lafourche31 min
Apr 28, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWilkinson47 min
Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXWilkinson30 min
Apr 28, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite45 min
Apr 28, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite47 min
Apr 28, 2:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPike60 min
Apr 28, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWalthall58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.