Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 23, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 10:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-240000- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1040 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE REGION TODAY. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY SOUTH OF A BATON ROUGE TO SLIDELL LINE.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 10:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-240000- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1040 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE REGION TODAY. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY SOUTH OF A BATON ROUGE TO SLIDELL LINE.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-250000- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE REGION TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE WILL BE A MINIMAL RISK OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.