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Special Weather Statement, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 22, 2015Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2015, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2015-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 302 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2015-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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
Aug 22, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXSaint Charles66 min
Aug 22, 1:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXEast Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge63 min
Aug 22, 2:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXAscension66 min
Aug 22, 3:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXEast Feliciana57 min

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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.