Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 3:31 PM CDT for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 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, 8.5 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
- 1300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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, Apr 22, 11:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
LAZ009-097-221800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1115 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1115 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA THROUGH MONROE INTO MISSISSIPPI NEAR LAUREL. THIS AREA WAS SLOWLY SOUTH WITH THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 1:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
LAZ009-097-221900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 100 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 100 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONROE TO JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SOUTH THROUGH ALEXANDRIA AND MC COMB TO BATON ROUGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 52 min |
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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.