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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 17, 20198 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood watch at Apr 17, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT for 8 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Apr 18, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 18, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 18, 2019, 9:13 PM CDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Flood severity
None

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 2019-04-17Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2019-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Apr 17, 3:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 3:53 AM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 3:44 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLIX66 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Louisiana, 2019Flash Flood Watches in Mississippi, 2019Every flash flood watch in 2019

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.