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Wind Advisory 15, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 13, 2020Saint Bernard Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this wind advisory at Dec 13, 2020, 3:22 PM CST for Saint Bernard Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Dec 13, 2020, 11:00 PM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2020, 3:22 PM CST (21:22 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 13, 2020, 11:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 14, 2020, 7:00 AM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 294 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2020-12-13Temperature 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2020-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 302 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
302 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
387 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 13, 11:56 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 11:56 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 12, 9:17 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena and 6 more11 hr
Dec 13, 3:49 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLIX35 hr

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.