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Freeze Warning 1, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 7, 2015Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this freeze warning at Jan 7, 2015, 4:52 AM CST for Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Jan 8, 2015, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2015, 4:52 AM CST (10:52 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2015, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 8, 2015, 9:00 AM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA

County Saint Bernard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 00:00Z on 2015-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2015-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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
Jan 7, 4:13 AM CSTGale WarningLIX26 hr
Jan 7, 4:13 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLIX32 hr
Jan 7, 4:40 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 7 more28 hr
Jan 7, 4:52 AM CSTHard Freeze WarningLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 7 more29 hr
Jan 7, 4:52 AM CSTWind AdvisoryLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 7 more25 hr

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.