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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2008, 2:22 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 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 29, 2008, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2008, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jackson County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 29, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 GMZ530-550-555-570-575-LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077- 080>082-301100- PASCAGOULA TO SW PASS MISSISSIPPI RIVER OUT 20 NM- PASCAGOULA TO SW PASS MISSISSIPPI RIVER 20-60 NM OUT- SW PASS MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO ATCHAFALAYA RIVER OUT 20 NM- SW PASS MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO ATCHAFALAYA RIVER 20-60 NM OUT-AMITE- ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-HANCOCK- HARRISON-IBERVILLE-JACKSON-LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS- LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES- LOWER ST BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-ORLEANS-PEARL RIVER-PIKE- POINTE COUPEE-ST CHARLES-ST HELENA-ST JAMES-ST JOHN THE BAPTIST- ST TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE- UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-WALTHALL- WASHINGTON-WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON- 1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO...SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSING LOCALIZED FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL NOT TO DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA EARLY MONDAY. THE BOUNDARY WILL HELP FOCUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT BEFORE WEAKENING AND DRIFTING INTO THE COASTAL WATERS BY MONDAY NIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY DEVELOP OVER LOW-LYING AREAS...ALONG DITCHES AND CREEKS...AND ACROSS URBANIZED REGIONS. ACTIVITY SHOULD DISSIPATE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. AS THE FRONT PUSHES SOUTH AND WEAKENS...DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION BY TUESDAY. A FEW AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP DUE TO DIURNAL HEATING. MOISTURE WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATE IN THE WEEK. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN BY FRIDAY WITH THE NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND FIRST RESPONDERS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY...AND ARE ASKED TO NOTIFY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SLIDELL IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED.
In the hours before
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LAZ034-035-047-048-292015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 211 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2008 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MOVING ACROSS POINTE COUPEE PARISH... AT 207 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL 7 MILES EAST OF MELVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORGANZA...MOVING EAST AT 17 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOTTIE BY 215 PM LIVONIA BY 235 PM NEW ROADS BY 245 PM ST. FRANCISVILLE BY 255 PM ERWINVILLE BY 305 PM WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 92/JSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 65 min | |
| Jun 28, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 57 min | |
| Jun 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 25 min | |
| Jun 29, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 67 min | |
| Jun 29, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 59 min | |
| Jun 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 62 min | |
| Jun 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 85 min |
| Jun 29, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.