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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 22, 1995Amite County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 3:50 PM CDT for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1995, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Amite County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 10.4

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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 36 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 46 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...TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT...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, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	59 min
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, 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

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.