Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 5:01 PM CDT for Washington Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 222201 SVRNEW LAC117-222300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 501 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON PARISH AT 500 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR MT HERMON NORTHWARD INTO WALTHALL COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND DIME SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH PIKE COUNTY. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
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, 5 hours 47 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, 3 hours 57 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:13 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
LAZ029-033-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 415 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 410 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LEBEAU AND MELVILLE EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO ALEXANDRIA AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM ANGOLA AND LIVONIA EAST ACROSS CLINTON AND BATON ROUGE TO BOGALUSA AND COVINGTON AND FROM WOODVILLE TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEM0ENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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 |
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.