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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 10, 2022Jefferson Parish, Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2022, 12:58 PM CDT for Jefferson Parish, Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 10, 2022, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2022, 2:59 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 2022-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1766 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 2022-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
1766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-27 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 Aug 10, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 10, 9:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
905 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0847 AM     FLASH FLOOD      MOSS POINT              30.43N 88.53W
08/10/2022                   JACKSON            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MULTIPLE FLOODED ROADWAYS REPORTED.

&&
Local storm report, Aug 10, 9:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
952 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0903 AM     FLASH FLOOD      2 SSE MOSS POINT        30.40N 88.52W
08/10/2022                   JACKSON            MS   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            REPORTS OF ROAD FLOODING AT FREDERIK ST AND
            ROSE DR.

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CAB
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:48 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 7:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXPointe Coupee41 min
Aug 9, 9:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXEast Feliciana32 min
Aug 9, 9:58 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana3 hr
Aug 10, 8:53 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX97 min
Aug 10, 10:31 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX119 min
Aug 10, 11:21 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLIX84 min
Aug 10, 12:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLIXJefferson, Orleans3 hr
Aug 10, 12:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXOrleans27 min
Aug 10, 1:24 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXJefferson, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist3 hr
Aug 10, 2:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge2 hr
Aug 10, 2:13 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXSaint Tammany3 hr
Aug 10, 2:59 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXJefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines61 min
Aug 9, 7:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLIXPearl River25 min
Aug 10, 5:50 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXJackson3 hr
Aug 10, 8:49 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatLIXJackson3 hr
Aug 10, 11:40 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLIXJackson2 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.