Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 476, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 2:34 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 1995, 2:34 AM CST (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 1995, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
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, Nov 10, 9:50 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
MSZ001>082-111400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 PM CST FRI NOV 10 1995 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WITH COLD FRONT LATE... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SEND IT/S ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT RACING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE FEEDING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA BUT THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THE FRONT SHOULD CROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EARLY IN THE MORNING REACHING ABOUT A TUPELO TO MCCOMB LINE AT 800 AM. THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONT AND WINDS MAY GUST TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MILES AN HOUR AS THE FRONT PASSES. THIS AIRMASS WILL BRING FALLING TEMPERATURES MOST OF SATURDAY. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL BE NECESSARY AS TORNADO WATCH 1059 WAS SET TO GO INTO EFFECT AT 1000 PM FOR 8 COUNTIES IN OUR NORTHWEST CORNER. ADDITIONAL WATCHES CAN BE EXPECTED POSSIBLY BETWEEN 200 AND 400 AM FOR OTHER SECTIONS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE.
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 9:52 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
MSZ001>082-111400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 PM CST FRI NOV 10 1995 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WITH COLD FRONT LATE... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SEND IT/S ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT RACING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE FEEDING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA BUT THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THE FRONT SHOULD CROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EARLY IN THE MORNING REACHING ABOUT A TUPELO TO MCCOMB LINE AT 800 AM. THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONT AND WINDS MAY GUST TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MILES AN HOUR AS THE FRONT PASSES. THIS AIRMASS WILL BRING FALLING TEMPERATURES MOST OF SATURDAY. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL BE NECESSARY AS TORNADO WATCH 1059 WAS SET TO GO INTO EFFECT AT 1000 PM FOR 8 COUNTIES IN OUR NORTHWEST CORNER. ADDITIONAL WATCHES CAN BE EXPECTED POSSIBLY BETWEEN 200 AND 400 AM FOR OTHER SECTIONS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 1:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 42 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Leflore, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Madison | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Winston | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Winston | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Smith | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 29 min |
| Nov 11, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 50 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Richland | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.