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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 16, 20264 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2026, 4:56 PM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 100 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: Jun 16, 2026, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2026, 6:36 PM CDT
In force: 100 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 1628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 16, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:13 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:49 PM CDT, 7 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
Jun 16, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		59 min
Jun 16, 5:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	115 min
Jun 16, 8:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	2 hr
Jun 16, 8:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	35 min
Jun 16, 8:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	33 min
Jun 16, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	59 hr
Jun 16, 9:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Livingston	3 days
Jun 16, 9:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	3 hr
Jun 16, 9:38 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LIX		68 hr
Jun 16, 9:40 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Terrebonne	38 hr
Jun 16, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	20 days
Jun 16, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	4 days
Jun 16, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Washington	18 days
Jun 16, 9:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James	3 hr
Jun 16, 10:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	3 hr
Jun 16, 11:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	5 hr
Jun 16, 12:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 16, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		48 min
Jun 16, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		65 min
Jun 16, 2:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 16, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		27 min
Jun 16, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		26 min
Jun 16, 2:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James	3 hr
Jun 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		60 min
Jun 16, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		48 min
Jun 16, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	82 min
Jun 16, 5:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Saint Helena and 2 more	117 min
Jun 16, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		55 min
Jun 16, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		56 min
Jun 16, 9:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	4 hr
Jun 16, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	26 hr
Jun 16, 11:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	3 hr
Jun 16, 12:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	4 days
Jun 16, 12:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	6 days
Jun 16, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	4 hr
Jun 16, 2:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	3 hr

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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.