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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS New Orleans, LA

February 16, 1998Saint James Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1998, 4:58 PM CST for Saint James Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 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
Feb 16, 1998, 4:58 PM CST (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 1998, 6:00 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 16, 2:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 1998-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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
Feb 16, 4:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAssumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne61 min
Feb 16, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJefferson, Saint Charles62 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.