Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:53 PM CDT for Iberville Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iberville Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 3641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 10, 11:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
LAZ029-033-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1125 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 1120 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM MORGANZA TO ARCOLA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A PLAQUEMINE TO COVINGTON LINE EXTENDING TO JEANERETTE...THIBODAUX AND NEW ORLEANS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA 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 THE AREA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
LAZ029-033-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 120 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM NEW ROADS TO BREAUX BRIDGE SOUTHEAST TO MORGAN CITY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF ERWINVILLE...NEAR NEW ROADS AND NORTH OF MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND... HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERST8ORMS CROSS THE AREA TODAY. POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
LAZ029-033-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 120 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM NEW ROADS TO BREAUX BRIDGE SOUTHEAST TO MORGAN CITY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF ERWINVILLE...NEAR NEW ROADS AND NORTH OF MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND... HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDjERSTORMS CROSS THE AREA TODAY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary | 58 min |
| May 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 61 min |
| May 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 59 min |
| May 9, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 58 min |
| May 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 65 min |
| May 9, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 54 min |
| May 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 65 min |
| May 9, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 63 min |
| May 10, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 63 min |
| May 10, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 2 hr |
| May 10, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 68 min |
| May 10, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 4 hr |
| May 10, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 56 min |
| May 10, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 69 min |
| May 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 57 min |
| May 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 60 min |
| May 9, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 30 min |
| May 9, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 69 min |
| May 9, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 61 min |
| May 9, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 61 min |
| May 9, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 68 min |
| May 9, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 3 hr |
| May 10, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 56 min |
| May 10, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 60 min |
| May 10, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 59 min |
| May 10, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 35 min |
| May 10, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 57 min |
| May 10, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 4 hr |
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.