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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2024, 5:26 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 18 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 13, 2024, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2024, 5:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA
The radar
The Hammond radar (KHDC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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 13, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 13, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New Orleans LA
309 PM CDT Mon May 13 2024
LAZ034-035-132045-
Pointe Coupee LA-West Feliciana LA-
309 PM CDT Mon May 13 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST
FELICIANA AND CENTRAL POINTE COUPEE PARISHES THROUGH 345 PM CDT
...
At 309 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Morganza, or 7 miles east of Melville, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
New Roads, St. Francisville, Livonia, Fordoche, and Morganza.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3097 9158 3083 9131 3055 9157 3065 9175
3066 9175
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 211DEG 21KT 3067 9162
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
MSWThe office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | East Feliciana | 27 min |
| May 13, 6:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 61 min |
| May 13, 7:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 56 min |
| May 13, 8:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 55 min |
| May 13, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 34 min |
| May 13, 8:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 60 min | |
| May 13, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 29 min |
| May 13, 9:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 58 min | |
| May 13, 9:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 min |
| May 13, 10:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LIX | Washington | 11 days |
| May 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 36 min |
| May 13, 3:17 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LIX | 9 hr | |
| May 13, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 50 min |
| May 13, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge | 22 min |
| May 13, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Iberville | 53 min |
| May 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville | 15 min |
| May 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge | 16 min |
| May 13, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Walthall | 17 min |
| May 13, 3:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Amite, Pike | 66 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.