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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 25, 2024Tangipahoa Parish, Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pike County, Walthall County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 2024, 9:16 AM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pike County, Walthall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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: Jan 25, 2024, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2024, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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 Jan 25, 5:47 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 5:47 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 25, 7:24 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 7:28 AM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 7:58 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 8:12 AM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 8:41 AM CST, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 8:59 AM CST, 17 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
Jan 24, 7:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:02 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		58 min
Jan 24, 8:18 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	62 hr
Jan 24, 8:39 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	51 min
Jan 24, 9:39 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, Livingston, Saint Charles, Saint James and 2 more	66 min
Jan 24, 9:43 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	62 min
Jan 24, 9:45 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Livingston, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	60 min
Jan 25, 7:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	47 min
Jan 25, 8:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge	48 min
Jan 25, 8:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Saint James	49 min
Jan 25, 8:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington	46 min
Jan 25, 9:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		86 min
Jan 25, 9:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	51 min
Jan 25, 9:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	39 min
Jan 25, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	45 min
Jan 25, 10:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	51 min
Jan 25, 10:58 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne	74 min
Jan 25, 11:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles, Terrebonne	33 min
Jan 25, 11:25 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		65 min
Jan 25, 11:39 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jefferson	36 min
Jan 25, 11:57 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Terrebonne	33 min
Jan 25, 12:20 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		55 min
Jan 25, 12:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jefferson	35 min
Jan 25, 1:15 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		60 min
Jan 25, 1:25 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 13 more	20 hr
Jan 25, 1:27 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LIX		20 hr
Jan 25, 4:44 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		61 min
Jan 25, 5:44 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		61 min
Jan 24, 7:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jackson	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:14 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pike	15 hr
Jan 25, 7:10 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Wilkinson	2 hr
Jan 25, 7:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Wilkinson	36 min
Jan 25, 7:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	47 min
Jan 25, 10:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	47 min
Jan 25, 11:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jackson	42 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.