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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 8, 20267 parishes in Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2026, 2:57 PM CDT for 7 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 63 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 8, 2026, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2026, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -432 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 May 8, 1:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 8, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 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
May 8, 8:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Washington	6 days
May 8, 8:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	9 days
May 8, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	42 min
May 8, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	41 min
May 8, 8:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	50 min
May 8, 9:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	48 min
May 8, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	51 min
May 8, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Washington	26 min
May 8, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	East Feliciana	34 min
May 8, 10:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Washington	42 min
May 8, 11:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Iberville	36 min
May 8, 11:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	54 min
May 8, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension	48 min
May 8, 12:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Tangipahoa, West Baton Rouge	4 hr
May 8, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	3 hr
May 8, 1:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	23 min
May 8, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Ascension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	43 min
May 8, 1:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	2 hr
May 8, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	109 min
May 8, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		40 min
May 8, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jefferson	65 min
May 8, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		57 min
May 8, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		66 min
May 8, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Plaquemines	63 min
May 8, 10:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	41 min
May 8, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Pearl River	43 min
May 8, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	13 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.