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Special Weather Statement, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 16, 20214 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this special weather statement at Apr 16, 2021, 4:56 AM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 2021, 4:56 AM CDT (09:56 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2021, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 00:00Z on 2021-04-16Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2021-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 16, 4:03 AM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 4:03 AM CDT, 53 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:21 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 4:56 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 9:06 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLIXTangipahoa39 hr
Apr 16, 4:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXIberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge39 min
Apr 16, 5:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXAscension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James, West Baton Rouge37 min
Apr 16, 5:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXAscension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist30 min
Apr 16, 5:49 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX56 min
Apr 16, 6:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXAscension, Assumption, Saint James48 min
Apr 16, 6:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXOrleans, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany44 min
Apr 16, 6:39 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX51 min
Apr 16, 6:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXOrleans46 min
Apr 16, 7:19 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX56 min
Apr 16, 7:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXJefferson24 min
Apr 16, 9:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXPlaquemines37 min
Apr 16, 9:34 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXPlaquemines11 min
Apr 16, 9:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXTerrebonne55 min
Apr 16, 9:51 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX54 min
Apr 16, 9:54 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX66 min
Apr 16, 10:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX62 min
Apr 16, 10:39 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX66 min
Apr 16, 11:24 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX66 min
Apr 16, 11:33 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX57 min
Apr 16, 12:02 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX58 min
Apr 16, 12:25 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX65 min
Apr 16, 12:47 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX28 min
Apr 16, 1:12 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX33 min
Apr 16, 1:25 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX50 min
Apr 15, 8:18 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLIXHancock11 hr
Apr 15, 9:06 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLIXPike13 hr
Apr 16, 9:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLIXHancock25 hr
Apr 16, 10:12 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLIXPike39 hr

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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.