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Storm Surge Warning 1009, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 27, 20217 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this storm surge warning at Aug 27, 2021, 4:12 PM CDT for 7 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 27, 2021, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2021, 4:19 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA

Counties Assumption Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 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 storm surge 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 storm surge warning went out at Aug 27, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 27, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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
Aug 26, 10:09 PM CDT	Hurricane Watch	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Orleans, Pointe Coupee and 9 more	36 hr
Aug 26, 10:09 PM CDT	Storm Surge Watch	LIX	Assumption, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany	18 hr
Aug 27, 3:34 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		116 min
Aug 27, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		48 min
Aug 27, 6:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		56 min
Aug 27, 7:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		63 min
Aug 27, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		56 min
Aug 27, 10:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Orleans, Saint Tammany	3 hr
Aug 27, 10:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany	12 hr
Aug 27, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		54 min
Aug 27, 4:01 PM CDT	Hurricane Warning	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Orleans, Pointe Coupee and 9 more	60 hr
Aug 27, 4:01 PM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Helena and 5 more	24 days
Aug 27, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	6 days
Aug 27, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock	5 days
Aug 27, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	5 days
Aug 27, 9:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	6 days
Aug 27, 10:46 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Watch	LIX	Amite, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson	5 hr
Aug 27, 1:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Harrison, Jackson	3 hr
Aug 27, 1:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	3 hr

Nearby

Storm Surge Warnings in Louisiana, 2021 Storm Surge Warnings in Mississippi, 2021 Every storm surge warning in 2021

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.