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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 8, 1995Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 5:10 PM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1995, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lafourche Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-442 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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, 4 hours 13 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 10:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry68 min
May 8, 11:09 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXAvoyelles66 min
May 8, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry60 min
May 8, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana55 min
May 8, 12:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee69 min
May 8, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry55 min
May 8, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge66 min
May 8, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston66 min
May 8, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville66 min
May 8, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Helena66 min
May 8, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAscension66 min
May 8, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXLivingston, Saint Helena64 min
May 8, 3:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXTangipahoa, Washington56 min
May 8, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSt. Mary, Terrebonne61 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAssumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne58 min
May 8, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Martin58 min
May 8, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWashington56 min
May 8, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson62 min
May 8, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXAmite, Pike62 min
May 8, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWalthall58 min
May 8, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPike, Walthall33 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.