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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 14, 2000Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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
Jul 14, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saint Tammany Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 14, 4:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindLacombe, LASeveral trees and large tree limbs blown down.

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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 2000-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2324 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 2000-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
2324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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.

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
205 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 2000

HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

MODELS KEEP THE UPPER HIGH OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL DEEPEN OVER THE EAST COAST. RIDGE OF
HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH THE
PERIOD. SURFACE WINDS WILL REMAIN WEST TO NORTHWEST THROUGH SUNDAY.
NO SIGNIFICANT UPPER DYNAMICS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WATCH AREA
THIS FORECAST PERIOD. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL SHOW CONSIDERABLE DRYING
SATURDAY THEN BEGIN SHOW AN INCREASE IN MID AND UPPER MOISTURE
SUNDAY. WHILE K VALUES REMAIN HIGH THE ABSENCE OF UPPER LEVEL
DYNAMICS INDICATE LITTLE SUPPORT FOR CONVECTION.

THE MAIN PROBLEM THIS FORECAST IS THE HIGH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES
NEAR RECORD LEVELS. COUPLED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 70S TO
LOWER 80S DANGEROUSLY HIGH HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA.
GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES FOR SATURDAY APPEAR TO BE SLIGHTLY LOW AND
WILL RAISE ACCORDINGLY. GUIDANCE LOWS ALSO APPEAR LOW AND WILL
RAISE ACCORDINGLY. WESTERLY WINDS AND NO UPPER DYNAMICS INDICATE
LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CONVECTION EVEN WITH THE HIGH TEMPERATURES
GENERATED BY SOLAR HEATING.

MCB 75/100/76/100 0001
BTR 79/099/79/100 0001
MSY 80/099/80/100 0001
GPT 80/098/80/099 0001

.NEW...HEAT ADVISORY IS EFFECT.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWashington25 min
Jul 14, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPlaquemines, Saint Bernard60 min
Jul 14, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison55 min
Jul 14, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.