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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 24, 2006Lafourche Parish, Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2006, 5:58 PM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 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 24, 2006, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lafourche Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 2006-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2006-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX59 min
Jun 24, 1:08 AM CDTMarine Weather StatementLIX52 min
Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX114 min
Jun 24, 6:12 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX2 hr
Jun 24, 8:17 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX113 min
Jun 24, 1:25 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX65 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX83 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.