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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 24, 1998Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT for Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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 24, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

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

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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 1998-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1647 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 1998-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
1647 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.