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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 28, 2013Livingston Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 2013, 3:15 PM CDT for Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2013, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Livingston Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2013-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1835 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.5

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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.