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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 5, 2000East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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: May 5, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Baton Rouge, LA	A tree was knocked down on a house and a number of power lines were 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLIX 052344
SVRNEW
LAC033-037-060030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
643 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A...

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
   - EAST FELICIANA PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 654 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OG FOUNTAINM PLACE. THE STORM IS
 MOVING TOWARDS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...(AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 May 5, 2:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
210 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000

MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH SLOW NE MOVEMENT OF UPPER LEVEL LOW.
MAIN AREA OF DISAGREEMENT IS WITH THE LOWER HEIGHTS OVER THE LOWER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. WILL MAINTAIN SOME THREAT OF MAINLY AFTERNOON
CONVECTION SAT AND SUN BASED ON THE FOLLOWING. LOW LEVEL SLY WINDS
WILL CONTINUE...MAX TEMPS WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S BOTH DAYS.
UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENT CENTERED OVER SE LOUISIANA BY 18Z SAT AND AGAIN
BY LATE SUN...BUT WEAKER. MEAN RH AND PCPL WATER ABOUT THE SAME AS
TODAY. 5H TEMPS NEAR MINUS 12 DEGS THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD.
EXPECT THE TROUGH AND DRIER AIR TO BE EAST OF THE CWA MON. MAY HAVE
TO BEGIN THE FORECAST PERIOD FOR...REMAINDER OF THIS
AFTERNOON...WHERE CONVECTION IS ONGOING. ALSO EXPECT PATCHY FOG TO
DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AS WINDS DECREASE
TO NEAR 3 KT OR LESS.

AS TROUGH MOVES EAST OF THE CWA EXPECT WE CAN DELETE THE CHANCE OF
PCPN MON AND TUE THEN MENTION AFTN SHOWERS AND TSTMS ON WED. EXPECT
TEMPS TO BE AT OR A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH WED.

MCB 65/87/65/87 1312    BTR 68/86/68/88 1312
MSY 70/86/69/8y8 1312    BIX 73/84/72/84 1212

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	32 min
May 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana	23 min
May 5, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	West Feliciana	54 min
May 5, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.