Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
Local storm report, May 8, 12:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
1256 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
TIME/CDT PARISH/LOCATION ...REPORTS FOR MAY 8...
1143 AM AVOYELLES GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN BUNKIE BY
POLICE DEPARTEMNT.
1210 AM AVOYELLES TORNADO REPORTED JUST EAST OF BUNKIE BY
SPOTTERS.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, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 55 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, 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.