Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 31, 2001Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 31, 2001, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 2001-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1765 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 2001-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.