Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 2:24 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 2:24 PM CST (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 3:13 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Tammany Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 062026 RRA SVRNEW LAC103-062130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 224 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...ST.TAMMANY PARISH AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN...JUST NORTH OF KENNER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTH PORTION OF ST TAMMANY PARISH BETWEEN 245 PM AND 330 PM THIS AFTERNOON. 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.
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, 2:13 PM CST, 11 minutes before
LAZ037-049-050-062110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 213 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ST HELENA...LIVINGSTON...AND ASCENSION PARISHES... AT 205 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES WEST OF THIBODAUX EXTENDING NORTHEAST THROUGH BOGALUSA TO 20 MILES WEST OF HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT NOTED WEST OF THIS LINE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Concordia | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 55 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 59 min |
| Jan 6, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 57 min |
| Jan 6, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 56 min |
| Jan 6, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 68 min |
| Jan 6, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 1:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 40 min |
| Jan 6, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 57 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.