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Flood Watch 1, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flood watch at Aug 9, 2016, 1:39 PM CDT for Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi. It took effect at Aug 10, 2016, 3:03 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2016, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2016, 3:03 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2016, 4:32 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Flood severity
- None
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 9, 8:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Saint Tammany | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Saint Tammany | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Jackson | 46 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.