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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 9, 2020Iberville Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2020, 8:39 PM CDT for Iberville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 2020, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 2020, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Iberville Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 2230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 9, 7:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 7:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 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
Apr 9, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Pointe Coupee	27 min
Apr 9, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge	37 min
Apr 9, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	49 min
Apr 9, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Lafourche, Livingston and 2 more	47 min
Apr 9, 9:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	55 min
Apr 9, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	49 min
Apr 9, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Livingston, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	45 min
Apr 9, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		87 min
Apr 9, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	59 min
Apr 9, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	46 min
Apr 9, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Tammany	37 min
Apr 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		61 min
Apr 9, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	43 min
Apr 10, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		109 min
Apr 10, 4:04 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LIX		54 hr
Apr 9, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Jackson	56 min
Apr 10, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jackson	56 min

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.