Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1995, 1:36 AM CST for Ascension Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1995, 1:36 AM CST (07:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1995, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ascension Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 12:47 AM CST, 49 minutes before
LAZ036-160750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1247 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 6 AM ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE BACK IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1241 CST RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EAST FELICIANA PARISH MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST FELICIANA PARISH CAN EXPECT THIS THUNDERSTORM DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SEEN IN TERREBONE PARISH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN NEAR MARSH ISLAND AND 12 MILES EAST OF LAFAYETTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 12:48 AM CST, 48 minutes before
LAZ036-160750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1247 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 6 AM ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE BACK IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1241 CST RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EAST FELICIANA PARISH MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST FELICIANA PARISH CAN EXPECT THIS THUNDERSTORM DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SEEN IN TERREBONE PARISH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN NEAR MARSH ISLAND AND 12 MILES EAST OF LAFAYETTE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 17 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 55 min |
| Mar 15, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, St. Mary | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint James | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 1:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 69 min |
| Mar 16, 2:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 67 min |
| Mar 16, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption | 67 min |
| Mar 16, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Bernard | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 66 min |
| Mar 16, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans | 60 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.