1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 25, 12:10 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 110 PM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 ONLY MODELS AVAILABLE TO LOOK AT ARE UKMET AND 12Z ETA RUN. NOGAPS AND MM5 MODELS STILL NOT AVAILABLE AND HAVE LIMITED DATA ANYWAY. ETA AND UKMET ARE SIMILAR AND INITIALIZE LOCATION OF H5 TROUGH CLOSE TO LOCAL ANALYSIS. HAVE CLOSED LOW OVER SOUTHEAST LA AT H5 WITH SHEAR AXIS OR TROUGH AT 300MB AND BELOW AT 700 MB OVER CENTRAL MS AND SOUTHEAST LA AT 12Z TODAY. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER AT OVER 2 INCHES...LIS AT 5-6 AND 2480 J/KG OF POSITIVE BUOYANCY...CANNOT SEE ANT REASON TO CHANGE FORECAST FROM PREVIOUS. WILL KEEP CHANCE CATEGORY OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND SOUTH MS COUNTIES. WITH WEAK FLOW ALOFT...MOVEMENT OF STORMS HAS BEEN SLOW TO NIL RESULTING IN LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEED FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY IN LCHS CWA AND NEAR GULFPORT AIRPORT. ETAS QPF VALUES ORIGINALLY APPEARED OVERDONE, BUT HAVE TO EAT MY WORDS ON THAT. ALTHOUGH SKEWED TOO FAR EAST IT IS IN BALLPARK FOR AREAWISE. WILL MENTION THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS SOUTHEAST ZONES FOR TONIGHT. MODELS SHIFT SHEAR AXIS TO NORTHWET AND WEAKEN IT FRIDAY AND SHIFTD SURFACE WINDS TO SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR A SEABREEZE TO SET UP AFTERNOON CONVECTION ALONG THE COAST FRIDAY. RIDGRING REBUILDS IN FROM THE EAST OVER THE WEEKEND LEADING TO A MORE NORMAL WARMER AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS MENU. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS PROJECTED BASED ON NO MOS GUIDANCE: MCB 72/91/72/93 3522 BTR 73/90/74/92 4522 MSY 75/88/76/94 5733 GPT 73/87/74/91 4633 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE.
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-261100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... WILL REMAIN NEAR STATIONARY THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS WILL PRODUCE INCREASING INSTABILITY FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH WITH ISOLATED HIGHER DOWNBURST GUSTS IN THE MORE INTENSE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SOME ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 2 INCHES OR MORE WILL BE POSSIBLE...AND OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING. ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY ATTAIN SEVERE LIMITS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .MARINE... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...AT TIMES IN SQUALLS...WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCAL GALE FORCE GUSTS 35 TO 45 KNOTS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ROUGH SEAS AND LOW VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAINFALL. WATERSPOUTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .HEAT INDICES... HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO APPROACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. .ACTIONS... NONE AT THIS TIME. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike destroyed a shed and its contents.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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