Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1994, 1:37 AM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 1994, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 1994, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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, Apr 5, 11:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
LAZ029-033>037-060620- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1116 PM CDT TUE APR 5 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WITH HEAVY RAIN...FROM SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ACROSS EAST AND WEST FELICIANA PARISHES...POINTE COUPEE AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THESE PARISHES AND TO ST. LANDRY PARISH WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 12:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
LAZ029-033>037-060700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1230 AM CDT WED APR 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH WEST AND EAST FELICIANA PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WITH HEAVY RAIN...FROM LAKE CHARLES THROUGH THE FELICIANA PARISHES INTO SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THESE PARISHES AND INTO WEST BATON ROUGE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 68 min |
Nearby
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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.