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Freeze Warning 3, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 11, 201913 parishes in Louisiana; 5 counties in Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this freeze warning at Nov 11, 2019, 2:42 PM CST for 13 parishes in Louisiana; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Nov 12, 2019, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 14 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: Nov 11, 2019, 2:42 PM CST (20:42 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 12, 2019, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Nov 13, 2019, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Nov 11, 11:49 AM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 11:49 AM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 2:46 PM CST	Gale Warning	LIX		27 hr
Nov 11, 2:46 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LIX		36 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Louisiana, 2019 Freeze Warnings in Mississippi, 2019 Every freeze warning 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.