A summertime convective pattern was in place during the day on the 25th. However there was drier air aloft than normal, aiding in the downward transport of the strongest cell.
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The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
A summertime convective pattern was in place during the day on the 25th. However there was drier air aloft than normal, aiding in the downward transport of the strongest cell. The strongest cell happened to be over portions of Mandeville where the cell produced a rather impressive downburst, damaging multiple trees around a hospital.
The Hammond radar (KHDC), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees down along Westwood Drive.
A few trees down around Lakeview Regional Medical Center.
A video at Fountainbleu High School showed one inch sized hail.
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