Thunderstorms associated with a cold front produced isolated reports of severe weather over Southeast Louisiana during the afternoon hours.
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.
Thunderstorms associated with a cold front produced isolated reports of severe weather over Southeast Louisiana during the afternoon hours.
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 May 18, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 100 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 .AVIATION... ...18Z TAF ISSUANCE... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER...LATE AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL AFFECT MCB...BTR...GPT...MSY AND HSA. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED MID LEVEL CLOUD MASS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THESE CLOUDS WERE BLOWN OFF A THUNDERSTORMS COMPLEX OVER THE CENTRAL TEXAS COAST. AS A RESULT...HEATING HAS BEEN CUT A LITTLE AT BTR AND MCB AND THIS WILL LEAD TO A LATE START FOR CU FIELD AND CONVECTION. WILL BLEED POSSIBLE CONVECTION TO 01Z WEDNESDAY FOR ALL TAF SITES. SOME PATCHY FOG MAY DEVELOP FROM 09 TO 13Z WEDNESDAY AT MCB AND HSA...HOWEVER MOST SITES WILL PREVAIL WITH VFR CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT THROUGH NOON WEDNESDAY. && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. GM...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 GMZ530-550-555-570-575-LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077- 080>082-191600- 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- 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS A WEAK COLD FRONT REMAINS STATIONARY ACROSS THE AREA. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE DIMINISHING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG...AND CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
LAZ040-MSZ077-182015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 221 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 ...CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AFFECTING ST. TAMMANY PARISH... AT 218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF COVINGTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABITA SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...SUN AND BUSH THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH...WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAZ058-060>064-182030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 232 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 ...CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AFFECTING ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH...ST. CHARLES PARISH...ST. BERNARD PARISH...JEFFERSON PARISH...ORLEANS PARISH...PLAQUEMINES PARISH... AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR NEW ORLEANS...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF NEW ORLEANS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER STORM OVER LAPLACE WAS MOVING EAST 10 MPH. THE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...NEW ORLEANS...LAKEFRONT AIRPORT...HARVEY...GRETNA...TERRYTOWN...TIMBERLANE...EAST NEW ORLEANS..LAPLACE AND NORCO. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOW LYING ROADWAYS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.
LAZ061-062-064-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 254 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2010 ...CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY STATIONARY AFFECTING ST. BERNARD PARISH...JEFFERSON PARISH...ORLEANS PARISH... AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR METAIRIE...OR OVER THE SOUTH END OF THE CAUSEWAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. THE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND METAIRIE AND NEW ORLEANS LAKEVIEW AREA. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH... WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOW LYING ROADWAYS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind damage to a roof and broken window. Pea size hail also.
Quarter size hail reported in Burns and Southwood communities.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, May 2010
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: 226265, 226267.