re: Southeast Severe Weather: January 8-9, 2024

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With KLIX down, is the Mobile or Lake Charles radar better for the New Orleans area?

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That is going to depend on where the line is.

You may need to look at Lake Charles if the line is around Morgan City/Houma, but then switch to Mobile as it gets closer to NOLA, the resolution of Lake Charles starts to drop off about this point especially if there is a large rain shield after the main line of thunderstorms. Another option depending on your location and storm trajectory is Jackson.

If you downloaded RadarScope to your desktop computer, you can access the New Orleans Airport Radar site, but that Radar site is really small it may cover just the city with accurate coverage.

If you have the WAFB First Alert App, it has 2 gap filling radar sites in St. Mary and West Feliciana Parish. The resolution on those can be decent up to about 20-30 miles from the site. The same company installed a gap filling Radar site in Chauvin. Unfortunately, none of the New Orleans TV stations decided to include it in their apps like WAFB. They may have to option to bring it on air if they paid the licensing fees from Climavision. Based on the press release I read, some local OEP offices subscribed to get the Chauvin radar site data. I don’t know where us average Joes can go get this radar site online.

Another option will be WDSU on air since they have their own radar site at their tower site in Chalmette. Unfortunately as much as they advertise it as the best thing since sliced bread since they are the only TV station that kept their own radar site, it looks like something from the early 2000’s with a really low resolution and small color palette. Not sure if it can be switched to storm velocity to see the winds.