The National Weather Service has issued a weather alert for Orleans and upper St. Bernard Parishes as stormy weather hits the region:
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
243 PM CDT WED JUL 25 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST AFFECTING ORLEANS PARISH...
UPPER ST. BERNARD PARISH...
AT 240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW ORLEANS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF NEW ORLEANS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...
CHALMETTE...LAKEFRONT AIRPORT AND EAST NEW ORLEANS
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
THIS STORM 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.
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