1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 26, 3:22 PM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 422 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 .DISCUSSION...UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWED A VIGOROUS LOW OVER NORTHERN UTAH AND AN ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION OVER OVER GEORGIA WITH THE RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO WEST. PRECIPITABLE WATER PLOTS REVEALED A SWATH OF GREATER THAN 2.3 INCHES ACROSS SOUTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THIS MORNING LOCAL SOUNDING REVEALED A PW VALUE OF 2.3 INCHES...NO CAP OR INVERSION...CAPE VALUE AROUND 2500 J/KG. A VERY DIFFICULT FORECAST IS ON THE PLATE AND SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE STUMBLING WITH ERNESTO AND TIMING OF THE TROUGH/COLD FRONT FOR THURSDAY. MEANWHILE...AS THE TROUGH UPSTREAM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO NEBRASKA BY LATE SUNDAY...STALL THROUGH TUESDAY AND PUSH EAST OVER THE OHIO VALLEY BY THURSDAY. THIS FEATURE WILL PULL THE MOISTURE AXIS NORTH OF THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND RAIN CHANCES SHOULD RETURN TO NEAR NORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE TROUGH MAY OR MAY NOT LIFT THE TS ERNESTO POSSIBLY HURRICANE ERNESTO NORTH ACROSS THE EASTERN GULF. RIDGE NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS STRONG GOING INTO NEXT WEEK. WITH THE ERNESTO 5 TO 7 DAY TRACK STAYING E OF 90W...DRY AIR ON THE BACK SIDE WILL FILTER IN DUE TO THE CIRCULATION OF ERNESTO. A TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO DRIVE A FRONT INTO THE AREA THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AND RAIN CHANCES ARE EXPECTED LOWER THAN NORMS THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MCB 73 88 73 91 / 50 70 30 60 BTR 75 89 75 92 / 50 70 30 50 MSY 78 90 78 92 / 50 70 30 50 GPT 76 88 75 91 / 50 70 30 40 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. GM...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1039 AM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-271200- POINTE COUPEE-WEST FELICIANA-EAST FELICIANA-ST. HELENA-TANGIPAHOA- WASHINGTON-ST. TAMMANY-IBERVILLE-WEST BATON ROUGE- EAST BATON ROUGE-ASCENSION-LIVINGSTON-ASSUMPTION-ST. JAMES- ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-UPPER LAFOURCHE-ST. CHARLES-UPPER JEFFERSON- ORLEANS-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE- LOWER TERREBONNE-LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-WILKINSON-AMITE-PIKE-WALTHALL- PEARL RIVER-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON- 1039 AM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED TODAY... A VERY MOIST TROPICAL AIRMASS IN PLACE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA COUPLED WITH NORMAL DAYTIME HEATING WILL LEAD TO NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. HOURLY RAINFALL RATES AROUND 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THE FRAGILE INFRASTRUCTURE OF DRAINAGE AND LINGERING DEBRIS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA WILL FURTHER AGGRAVATE FLOODING CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL...THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE SUNDAY. SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THOUGH ARE NOT EXPECTED. TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO IS FORECASTED TO MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO BY THURSDAY AS A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE. ALL INTERESTS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE LATEST ADVISORIES REGARDING ERNESTO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. HOWEVER...IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED IN YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 year old man was a fatally shocked by a lightning discharge while talking on the telephone. He succumbed to his injuries during the early morning hours of Aug 27.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Pike | 2006-08-27 | 64 | Male | Telephone | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5531599.