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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2008, 3:43 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 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
- Apr 11, 2008, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 Apr 10, 3:56 PM CDT, 23 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:56 PM CDT, 23 hours 47 minutes before
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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.