Alert archive / Louisiana / 1988
Weather alerts in Louisiana, May 1988
30 weather alerts in May 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 30
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 24, 198813 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 66 min |
| May 10, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 55 min |
| May 10, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 25 min |
| May 10, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Iberville | 40 min |
| May 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 55 min |
| May 21, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| May 21, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette | 58 min |
| May 21, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 53 min |
| May 21, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 44 min |
| May 21, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 46 min |
| May 21, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 50 min |
| May 21, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 44 min |
| May 21, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles, Terrebonne | 60 min |
| May 21, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 2 hr |
| May 21, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 21, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| May 22, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 75 min |
| May 24, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 57 min |
| May 24, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 51 min |
| May 24, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 67 min |
| May 24, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 67 min |
| May 24, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 61 min |
| May 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 58 min |
| May 24, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 62 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 41 min |
| May 24, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 61 min |
| May 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 55 min |
| May 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 63 min |
| May 24, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 49 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 25 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Saint Tammany Parish6
- Tangipahoa Parish5
- East Baton Rouge Parish3
- Lafourche Parish3
- Terrebonne Parish3
- Plaquemines Parish3
- Jefferson Parish3
- West Baton Rouge Parish2
- Lafayette Parish2
- Orleans Parish2
- Saint Bernard Parish2
- Saint Helena Parish2
- Pointe Coupee Parish1
- Ascension Parish1
- Iberville Parish1
- Union Parish1
- Calcasieu Parish1
- Acadia Parish1
- Saint Charles Parish1
- Washington Parish1
- Franklin Parish1
- Madison Parish1
- Tensas Parish1
- Assumption Parish1
- East Feliciana Parish1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.