Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 12:50 PM CDT for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
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, May 8, 7:17 AM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 715 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING FOR AVOYELLES PARISH... AT 710 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM FORT POLK EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO WINNFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 8:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 855 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES... AT 850 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM VINTON AND LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS FORT POLK AND ALEXANDRIA TO NEAR COLUMBIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STA"TEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 9:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 948 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES... AT 945 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS OAKDALE AND BUNKIE TO ALEXANDRIA AND HARRISONBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER SnTATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 68 min |
| May 8, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 66 min |
| May 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 60 min |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 55 min |
| May 8, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 69 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 66 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 66 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Helena | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 66 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa, Washington | 56 min |
| May 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary, Terrebonne | 61 min |
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 58 min |
| May 8, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 65 min |
| May 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 56 min |
| May 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 62 min |
| May 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 62 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 33 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.