Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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, 7:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 22, 9:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 955 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 950 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM VILLE PLATTE ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO FORT POLK...ALEXANDRIA... AND VIDALIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. \
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1050 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... AT 1045 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EUNICE AND OPELOUSAS EXTENDING ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO FORT POLK... ALEXANDRIA AND VIDALIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 11:49 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1150 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... AT 1145 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAFAYETTE... EUNICE AND OAKDALE EXTENDING ACROSS MORGANZA...BUNKIE AND MARKSVILLE TO NATCHEZ AND BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS 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, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 117 min |
| Apr 23, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, Terrebonne | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Harrison | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Apr 23, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 94 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 118 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.