Scattered thunderstorms develop along and in advance of a weak cold front that moved south across southeast Louisiana and south Mississippi.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms develop along and in advance of a weak cold front that moved south across southeast Louisiana and south Mississippi.
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 Jul 14, 2:36 AM CST, 10 hours 44 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1034 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2008 GMZ530-550-555-570-575-LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077- 080>082-151545- LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND LAKE MAUREPAS- COASTAL WATERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PASCAGOULA MS TO THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PASCAGOULA MS TO THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM 20 TO 60 NM-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- 1034 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TODAY...LEADING TO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THOUGH SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFFSHORE THIS EVENING...WITH CONVECTION CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 95/DM
LAZ058>060-141930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 134 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2008 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS MOVING INTO THE AREA... AT 130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN NEAR RESERVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 14 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HAHNVILLE BY 210 PM NEW SARPY BY 220 PM DESTREHAN BY 225 PM BOUTTE BY 230 PM WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 142 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2008 LAZ040-141915- ST TAMMANY- 142 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH ST. TAMMANY PARISH... A LING OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR PEARL RIVER TO COVINGTON...MANDEVILLE AND MADISONVILLE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH THROUGH 230 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 2008
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: 126490.