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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2022, 5:13 PM CDT for Jefferson Parish, Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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
- May 15, 2022, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1842 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 May 15, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service New Orleans LA 333 PM CDT Sun May 15 2022 .SHORT TERM (Tonight through Tuesday)... Troughiness extending from the NE Conus hangs into the NE Gulf with an weak upper level low with ridging from the SW Conus trying to nudge into the region from the west. Environment unstable enough for isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop through the overnight hours...likely with less than 30 percent coverage of the area and mainly east of I-55 where it will be a bit more away from the influence of the nudging ridge. MCS developed over the plains today and will drop south towards LA...though may stay west of the area according to HRRR runs and weaken as it does. Will go with that...but this must be watched in case it ends up slightly further west. Don't think it is any severe threat for the region..but could bring rainfall that is currently not forecasted early tomorrow morning if that should occur. Ridhing nudges further east into the area and the upper level low moves into FL by afternoon Monday...maybe an isolated T-storm in the late afternoon and evening with peak heating. Ridge moves into the area by early Tuesday. Above average temps will continue through the period...with normal highs around 85 this part of May. -ABS .LONG TERM (Wednesday through Sunday)... Ridging looks to be set in place Wednesday and Thursday above average temps and dry mostly sunny days for the region. Friday a large syatem moves from the Rockies into the far Northern Plains and flattens the ridging across the region...surface high siting off FL will start to push deeper moisture back into the area as a cold front tries to push into LA but stalls by Saturday allowing for better chances of showers and thunderstorms as we start the weekend. The front fizzles north of the area...but could be enough for continued showers and thunderstorms Sunday. Above normal temps are likely through the period...though a bit cooler over the weekend is possible due to the clouds and rainfall. -ABS && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 1225 PM CDT Sun May 15 2022/ AVIATION (18z TAFS)... VFR conditions across the region with light winds. Seabreeze/lake breeze will affect winds through the afternoon as it pushes inland across the coastal sites. VCTS has been added especially along the MS Gulf Coast as the seabreeze boundary may help focus TS development later today. Will continue to watch for development and if coverage looks more widespread than anticpated may need to consider addition of VCTS or TSRA at MSY/BTR/NEW. Soon after sunset chances for TS should be low, and VFR will dominate with light west or NW winds. Don't think fog will be much of an issue with some CI blow off from storms up stream...will have to watch that MCS complex as it may reach here early morning/daybreak and TAFs currently do not show such a scenario. -ABS MARINE... A few scattered storms this afternoon but other than that just a potential for isolated, mainly nocturnal, thunderstorms, no major impacts are expected over marine areas during the forecast period. 35/ABS && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MCB 67 91 67 92 / 0 20 20 10 BTR 68 92 69 92 / 0 20 20 10 ASD 68 93 68 93 / 10 20 20 10 MSY 72 91 73 91 / 10 10 10 10 GPT 70 91 70 91 / 10 30 20 10 PQL 67 91 67 92 / 10 30 20 10 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...None. GM...None. MS...None. GM...None. &&
In the hours before
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</html>Local storm report, May 15, 5:05 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
505 PM CDT SUN MAY 15 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0445 PM HAIL 1 ENE TIMBERLANE 29.88N 90.01W
05/15/2022 E1.50 INCH PLAQUEMINES LA TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PING PONG BALLS REPORTED
JUST SOUTHEAST OF TERRYTOWN.
&&
CABLocal storm report, May 15, 5:11 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
511 PM CDT SUN MAY 15 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0438 PM HAIL 2 E BELLE CHASSE 29.85N 89.98W
05/15/2022 E2.00 INCH PLAQUEMINES LA BROADCAST MEDIA
PICTURE RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA OF HAIL
NEAR 2 IN DIAMETER NEAR THE BRAITHWAITE
FERRY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE MS RIVER.
&&
CABThe office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 40 min | |
| May 14, 8:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Iberville | 36 min |
| May 14, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 49 min |
| May 14, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 23 min |
| May 15, 1:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 65 min | |
| May 15, 2:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 92 min | |
| May 15, 4:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 97 min | |
| May 15, 5:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 98 min | |
| May 15, 8:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 60 min | |
| May 15, 10:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 63 min | |
| May 15, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 59 min | |
| May 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Plaquemines | 28 min |
| May 15, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Plaquemines | 24 min |
| May 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| May 15, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 62 min | |
| May 15, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Plaquemines | 51 min |
| May 15, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 63 min | |
| May 15, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Orleans | 37 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 84 min | |
| May 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 39 min | |
| May 14, 7:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Harrison | 61 min |
| May 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 39 min |
| May 14, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pearl River | 55 min |
| May 14, 9:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pearl River | 27 min |
| May 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pearl River | 28 min |
| May 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pearl River | 25 min |
| May 14, 9:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Hancock | 17 min |
| May 14, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pearl River | 30 min |
| May 15, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Harrison | 66 min |
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 65 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.