Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 1995, 1:27 AM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 1995, 1:27 AM CST (07:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1995, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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, Jan 12, 11:53 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-130700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1155 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR ALL EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ALEXANDRIA TO MARKSVILLE AND ALONG THE COAST JUST EAST OF LAKE CHARLES...ELSEWHERE RAIN CONTINUED FROM SHREVEPORT TO DE RIDDER AND JENNINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 11:55 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-130700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1155 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR ALL EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ALEXANDRIA TO MARKSVILLE AND ALONG THE COAST JUST EAST OF LAKE CHARLES...ELSEWHERE RAIN CONTINUED FROM SHREVEPORT TO DE RIDDER AND JENNINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 1:05 AM CST, 22 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-130900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 105 AM CST FRI JAN 13 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR ALL EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF LAKE CHARLES TO DE RIDDER AND NORTHWEST OF EUNICE...ELSEWHERE RAIN CONTINUED FROM SHREVEPORT THROUGH ALEXANDRIA TO SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES AND LAFAYETTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED. THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WINDS ABOVE 80 MPH EARLIER WEST OF LAKE CHARLES.
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 1:07 AM CST, 20 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-130900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 105 AM CST FRI JAN 13 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR ALL EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF LAKE CHARLES TO DE RIDDER AND NORTHWEST OF EUNICE...ELSEWHERE RAIN CONTINUED FROM SHREVEPORT THROUGH ALEXANDRIA TO SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES AND LAFAYETTE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED. THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WINDS ABOVE 80 MPH EARLIER WEST OF LAKE CHARLE<S.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 68 min |
| Jan 13, 2:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge | 57 min |
| Jan 13, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary | 69 min |
| Jan 13, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin | 66 min |
| Jan 13, 4:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint James | 53 min |
| Jan 13, 4:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 43 min |
| Jan 13, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 55 min |
| Jan 13, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 55 min |
| Jan 13, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 64 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.