Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 26, 2001Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 5:40 PM CDT for Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2001, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Iberville Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1666 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLIX 262240
SVRNEW
LAC047-077-262315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
540 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  IBERVILLE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  POINTE COUPEE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOTTIE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BREAUX BRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER
IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3046 9187 3036 9170 3058 9149 3071 9171y

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 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO LIFT SLOWLY NWD OVER GULF COAST REGION
THIS AFTN AS INDICATED BY DEWPT ANALYSIS. LATEST RADAR IMAGERY INDICATED
A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE HAS DEVELOPED THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THIS
MRNG. THUS TSTM DEVELOPMENT IS UNLIKELY REMAINDER OF TODAY. HOWEVER WIDELY
SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA MAY DEVELOP IN NRN/CNTL LA AND CNTRL MS TONIGHT
AND DRIFT SWD INTO SWRN MS OVERNIGHT. SO WILL LEAVE POPS IN FOR THAT
SEC. WILL LEAN MORE ON ETA MODEL WHICH APPEARS TO BE DRIER IN MEAN RH
NEXT 60 HOURS. A LITTLE STRONGER S/W TROF FCST TO MOVE SEWD INTO THE
LOWER MS VALLEY LATE IN THE WEEK AND POSSIBLY BRING AN INCREASED
THREAT OF SCTD TSRA. IN THE MEAN-TIME NOT MUCH AREAL COVERAGE OF
SHOWERS LIKELY. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT MAY ACCOMPANY THE DISTURBANCE ALOFT
AND PASS SEWD THROUGH THE REGION BY NEXT WEEKEND.

MCB 63/87/65/87 2312    BTR 67/87/69/88 1212
MSY 68/88/71/88 1212    GPT 67/85/69/85 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 26, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	25 min
May 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee	30 min
May 26, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	West Feliciana	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2001 Every 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.