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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 28, 1998East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 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
May 28, 1998, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1998-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1990 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 1998-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 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
1990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 28, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee32 min
May 28, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPike33 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.