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Excessive Heat Watch 2, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 19, 20215 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this excessive heat watch at Aug 19, 2021, 1:26 PM CDT for 5 parishes in Louisiana. It took effect at Aug 21, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 2021, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 21, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired
Aug 20, 2021, 1:26 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 2021-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2791 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2791 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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 excessive heat 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 excessive heat watch went out at Aug 19, 12:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 12:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 2:58 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Helena and 6 more16 hr
Aug 19, 1:26 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryLIXAssumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Orleans, Pointe Coupee and 9 more30 hr
Aug 19, 4:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXWest Baton Rouge52 min
Aug 19, 5:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXSaint Helena39 min
Aug 19, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXAmite45 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.