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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 1, 2005East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT for East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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 1, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County East Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 1, 7:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 7:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 1:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
124 PM CDT FRI JUL 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1225 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     4 SW BELLE CHASSE       29.81N 90.05W
07/01/2005                   PLAQUEMINES        LA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED A LARGE FUNNEL
            CLOUD BETWEEN BELLE CHASSE AND LEFITTE MOVING SOUTHEAST.

&&

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:07 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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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
Jul 2, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	50 min
Jul 2, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	47 min
Jul 2, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville, West Baton Rouge	24 min
Jul 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	44 min
Jul 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, West Baton Rouge	40 min
Jul 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	47 min
Jul 2, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist and 1 more	42 min
Jul 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		61 min
Jul 2, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Saint Charles, Saint Tammany, Terrebonne	38 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.