Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1994, 10:38 AM CST for Orleans Parish, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1994, 10:38 AM CST (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1994, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 23 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 5:08 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ033>036-046>050-091300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 505 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ALEXANDRIA TO EAST OF LAKE CHARLES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN LAKE CHARLES AND VILLE PLATTE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OVER 55 MPH AT LAKE CHARLES. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY SHOULD BE ALERT AND READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 7:56 AM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
LAZ033>036-046>050-091500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 755 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA... RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GREENSBURG SOUTH TO BATON ROUGE TO WHITE CASTLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FRQUENT LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING THIS MORNING.
Local storm report, Mar 9, 9:11 AM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
845 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994
TIME/CST LOCATION/PARISH REPORT
SHERIFF/S OFFICES...
640 AM ST LANDRY TREE DOWN HIGHWAY 71 5 MILES NORTHWEST
PARISH KROTZ SPRINGS.
640 AM POINTE COUPEE TREE/POWER LINE DAMAGE AT MORGANZA...
LIVONIA...ROUGON AND VENTRESS.
645 AM IBERVILLE TREE DOWN ROSEDALE HIGHWAY 77
PARISH
702 AM EAST FELICIANA STATE POLICE REPORT DAMAGE TO TOWER
PARISH AT JACKSON
720 AM EAST FELICIANA POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR PORT HUDSON.
PARISH
725 AM EAST FELICIAN HIGHWAY 68 NEAR JACKSON POSSIBLE TORNADO
NO INJURIES...TREE ON HOUSE
810 AM LIVINGSTON TREES/POWER LINE DOWN...2 MILES WEST OF
LIVINSTON...JUST NORTHWEST OF WALKER...
j 3 MILES SOUTH WALKER...IN LIVINGSTON.
815 AM IBERVILLE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
SOME STREET FLOODING SCATTERED ABOUT.
ALL OCCURED AROUND 7 AM.Special weather statement, Mar 9, 9:25 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
LAZ033>036-046>050-091500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 925 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM... RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF KENTWOOD SOUTH TO DONALDSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. ELSEWHERE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM ST JOSEPH TO LAFAYETTE THROUGH BATON ROUGE TO HAMMMOND. PEOPLE OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 8:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston | 69 min |
| Mar 9, 8:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 8:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 58 min |
| Mar 9, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 9:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.