Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS New Orleans, LA

Issued

May 26, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS New Orleans, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Pointe Coupee Parish, LA

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.

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WUUS54 KLIX 262314
SVRNEW
LAC077-262345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POINTE COUPEE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW ROADS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  LETTSWORTH TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LOTTIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVERm
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.

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

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

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.