Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 7:23 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 7:23 AM CST (13:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 061324 RRA SVRBTR LAC009-025-029-061430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 723 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS....... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH...SOUTHERN CATAHOULA PARISH ...CONCORDIA PARISH RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE NORTHEAST OF VICK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Jan 6, 2:00 AM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
MSZ001>052-061800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...WINTER STORM WARNING DOWNGRADED TO WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING... ...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDES AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE TO COLUMBUS. A STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WESTERN TEXAS HAS PRODUCED WARM SOUTHERLY WINDS OVER THE REGION. THIS HAS WARMED TEMPERATURES OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI...ELIMINATING THE THREAT OF FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET FOR THESE AREAS. TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED MORE SLOWLY OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. IT MAY BEGIN AS A MIXTURE OF RAIN... FREEZING RAIN...SLEET OR SNOW OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE AS THE ATMOSPHERE UNDERGOES WARMING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. THE POTENTIAL FOR ICING IS MOST DANGEROUS FOR EARLY MORNING MOTORISTS AS EVEN THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF ICE CAN CAUSE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. LIGHT ICING IS POSSIBLE ON ROADS AND OTHER EXPOSED SURFACES THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING FRIDAY. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING WARMER AIR TO ALL OF THE STATE BY MIDMORNING FRIDAY...CHANGING PRECIPITATION TO RAIN STATEWIDE. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 2:14 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
MSZ001>052-061800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...WINTER STORM WARNING DOWNGRADED TO WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING... ...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDES AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE TO COLUMBUS. A STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WESTERN TEXAS HAS PRODUCED WARM SOUTHERLY WINDS OVER THE REGION. THIS HAS WARMED TEMPERATURES OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI...ELIMINATING THE THREAT OF FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET FOR THESE AREAS. TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED MORE SLOWLY OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. IT MAY BEGIN AS A MIXTURE OF RAIN... FREEZING RAIN...SLEET OR SNOW OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE AS THE ATMOSPHERE UNDERGOES WARMING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. THE POTENTIAL FOR ICING IS MOST DANGEROUS FOR EARLY MORNING MOTORISTS AS EVEN THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF ICE CAN CAUSE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. LIGHT ICING IS POSSIBLE ON ROADS AND OTHER EXPOSED SURFACES THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING FRIDAY. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING WARMER AIR TO ALL OF THE STATE BY MIDMORNING FRIDAY...CHANGING PRECIPITATION TO RAIN STATEWIDzE. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE.
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.