Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 5:55 AM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 23, 1:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT THIS MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING AND TODAY... AT 120 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRAND CHENIER EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS SUNSET AND LAFAYETTE...NEW ROADS AND CLINTON TO MCCOMB 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 RE4MAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Apr 23, 4:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
425 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995
TIME/CDT PARISH/LOCATION ...REPORTS FOR APRIL 23...
1220AM AVOYELLES SHERIFF REPORTED TREES DOWN HIGHWAY 1 NEAR
ZION ROAD IN COTTONPORT.
303 AM ST LANDRY SHERIFF REPORTED SOME TREES DOWN AND STREET
FLOODING NEAR WHITEVILLE IN NORTHERN ST
LANDRY.
323 AM AVOYELLES DELAYED REPORT OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR
BUNKIE BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT.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, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 61 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 | 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
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.