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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 9, 2001Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 2:05 PM CDT for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 15 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 9, 2001, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 2:20 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jefferson Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 2001-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 735 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 2001-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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 Jun 9, 2:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1100 AM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON
FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AS WELL AS ADJOINING
COUTNIES OF MISSISSIPPI...

.SYNOPSIS...
THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM ALLISON LOCATED JUST WEST-SOUTHWEST
OF GALVESTON ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND POSSIBLY EMERGE
BACK OVER THE EXTREME NORTHWEST GULF LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT. DEEP
TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS AREAS
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST
REGION THROUGH TONIGHT.

.THUNDERSTORMS...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY
RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND
WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MILES AN HOUR ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT LIKELY ALTHOUGH AN
ISOLATED TORNADO MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

.HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING...
AREAS WHICH RECEIVE REPEAT SHOWERS COULD RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO
4 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. HEAVY
RAIN ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING.

.ACTIONS...REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD RELATED WATCHES...WARNINGS AND
STATEMENTS. THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED IF
ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS OBSERVED.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE ON THE INTERNET AT
THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS...HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LETTERS
SHOULD BE LOWER CASE).

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXJefferson, Plaquemines30 min
Jun 9, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPlaquemines, Saint Bernard32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.