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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 15, 2024Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT for Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 15, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2024, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Amite County, MS, Pike County, MS

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 2760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 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 Aug 15, 12:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 12:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:54 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:22 PM CDT, 12 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 14, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	42 min
Aug 14, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		88 min
Aug 14, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	25 min
Aug 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	54 min
Aug 14, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	61 min
Aug 14, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Tammany	34 min
Aug 14, 8:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	2 hr
Aug 14, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	40 min
Aug 15, 3:16 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 13 more	15 hr
Aug 15, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		33 min
Aug 15, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Washington	36 min
Aug 15, 2:23 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 13 more	29 hr
Aug 15, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Washington	31 min
Aug 15, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Helena	32 min
Aug 15, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Washington	35 min
Aug 15, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Helena	47 min
Aug 15, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Tangipahoa	39 min
Aug 15, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	38 min
Aug 15, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	34 min
Aug 15, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	41 min
Aug 15, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	45 min
Aug 15, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Livingston	37 min
Aug 15, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		2 hr
Aug 15, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Livingston, Saint John the Baptist	28 min
Aug 15, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Feliciana	27 min
Aug 15, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston	48 min
Aug 15, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	26 min
Aug 15, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	33 min
Aug 15, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint John the Baptist	46 min
Aug 15, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension, Iberville, Saint James, West Baton Rouge	34 min
Aug 15, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James and 1 more	38 min
Aug 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans, Saint Charles	24 min
Aug 15, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne	65 min
Aug 15, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James and 1 more	2 hr
Aug 15, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	42 min
Aug 15, 6:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Charles	100 min
Aug 15, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne	20 min
Aug 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	63 min
Aug 15, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Lafourche	42 min
Aug 14, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Hancock	51 min
Aug 15, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Pike	38 min
Aug 15, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Amite	28 min
Aug 15, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Hancock	44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.