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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 30, 2022Lafourche Parish, Saint Charles Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2022, 2:15 PM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Saint Charles Parish, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 82 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: Jun 30, 2022, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2022, 3:37 PM CDT
In force: 82 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Lafourche Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1869 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 30, 10:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 10:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 11:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 1:52 PM CDT, 23 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
Jun 30, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Plaquemines	30 min
Jun 30, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	27 min
Jun 30, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	78 min
Jun 30, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	28 min
Jun 30, 1:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Lafourche	23 min
Jun 30, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Pointe Coupee	25 min
Jun 30, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint John the Baptist	22 min
Jun 30, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Helena	49 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	78 min
Jun 30, 2:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Wilkinson	33 min

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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.