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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 22, 1998Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 3:11 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 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
Jun 22, 1998, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 3:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindNew Roads, 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1733 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 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
1733 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana27 min
Jun 22, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana45 min
Jun 22, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston18 min
Jun 22, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana63 min
Jun 22, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.