Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1995, 3:12 AM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Avoyelles Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 230813 FFWBTR LAC009-231015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 312 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...AVOYELLES PARISH AVOYELLES PARISH SHERIFF REPORTS STREET OR ROADWAY FLOODING IN MARKSVILLE ...HESSMER AND MANSURA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 22, 9:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 955 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 950 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM VILLE PLATTE ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO FORT POLK...ALEXANDRIA... AND VIDALIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. \
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1050 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... AT 1045 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EUNICE AND OPELOUSAS EXTENDING ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO FORT POLK... ALEXANDRIA AND VIDALIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 11:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1150 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... AT 1145 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAFAYETTE... EUNICE AND OAKDALE EXTENDING ACROSS MORGANZA...BUNKIE AND MARKSVILLE TO NATCHEZ AND BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT THIS MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING AND TODAY... AT 120 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRAND CHENIER EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS SUNSET AND LAFAYETTE...NEW ROADS AND CLINTON TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD RE4MAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 117 min |
| Apr 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, Terrebonne | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 65 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.