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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 30, 2022Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2022, 3:09 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 66 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: Mar 30, 2022, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2022, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Wilkinson County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 30, 2:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 2:25 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
225 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2022

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

0200 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 1 NNE OAK HILLS PLACE   30.38N 91.08W
03/30/2022                   EAST BATON ROUGE   LA   PUBLIC

            TWO TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.

&&

JFL

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:02 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
302 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2022

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

0256 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 ESE OAK HILLS PLACE   30.34N 91.03W
03/30/2022                   EAST BATON ROUGE   LA   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            POWER POLE BLOWN DOWN WITH MULTIPLE LINES ON
            THE GROUND.

&&

JFL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 4:51 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany	20 hr
Mar 30, 7:07 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany	18 hr
Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	47 min
Mar 30, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Iberville, West Baton Rouge	56 min
Mar 30, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	46 min
Mar 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	48 min
Mar 30, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge	42 min
Mar 30, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James	66 min
Mar 30, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	80 min
Mar 30, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Tangipahoa	43 min
Mar 30, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	38 min
Mar 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston	77 min
Mar 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	52 min
Mar 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	35 min
Mar 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Assumption, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	31 min
Mar 30, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	48 min
Mar 30, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		55 min
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	37 min
Mar 30, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Wilkinson	44 min
Mar 30, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike, Walthall	61 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.