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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 30, 20104 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 40 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
May 30, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Ascension Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2010-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1595 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2010-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 May 29, 6:50 PM CDT, 20 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:50 PM CDT, 20 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX63 min
May 29, 7:23 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX52 min
May 29, 8:00 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX60 min
May 29, 9:40 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX65 min
May 30, 6:48 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX42 min
May 30, 7:29 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX61 min
May 30, 8:43 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX62 min
May 30, 10:21 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX84 min
May 30, 10:24 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX66 min
May 30, 10:50 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX25 min
May 30, 12:26 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX64 min
May 30, 1:25 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXJefferson2 hr
May 30, 2:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXSaint Charles118 min
May 30, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, Livingston43 min
May 30, 5:26 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXWest Feliciana2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.