Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 2:22 PM CST for East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 2:22 PM CST (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2:48 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Brusly To, LA | One person was injured when a house was destroyed. Six other homes were damaged. Two tractor-semitrailers were overturned and power lines downed. Tornado length and width estimated. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jan 18, 11:19 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ034>037-046>050-181800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1110 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...SHOWERS BUILDING ALONG A LINE SOUTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE... AT 1100 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS BUILDING FROM LAFAYETTE SOUTH TO THE GULF COAST. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AND THEY WILL BE MOVING INTO THE BATON ROUGE AREA DURING SHORTLY AFTER NOON. THESE SHOWERS ARE STILL LIGHT BUT COULD BUILD RAPIDLY. PERSONS IN THE BATON ROUGE ARE SHOULD BEGIN PREPARING FOR SOME RAIN AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 12:28 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1228 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IO EFFECT FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1225 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA TO BETWEEN PLAQUEMINE AND NEW IBERIA LOUISIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED EAST OF LAFAYETTE TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE. PEOPLE SHOULD BEGIN PREPARING FOR SOME RAIN AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 12:29 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1228 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IO EFFECT FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1225 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA TO BETWEEN PLAQUEMINE AND NEW IBERIA LOUISIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEzAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED EAST OF LAFAYETTE TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE. PEOPLE SHOULD BEGIN PREPARING FOR SOME RAIN AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 12:31 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH TIME. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1231 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 400 PM CST.. AT 1225 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA TO BETWEEN PLAQUEMINE AND NEW IBERIA LOUISIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED EAST OF LAFAYETTE TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE. PEOPLE SHOULD BEGIN PREPARING FOR SOME RAIN AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 1:27 PM CST, 55 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 127 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CST... AT 123 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING FROM JUST WEST OF CLINTON SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA TO JUST NORTH OF PLAQUEMINE LOUISIANA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED SOUTH OF THIS AREA FROM SOUTH OF PLAQUEMINE TO NEAR MORGAN CITY AND PATTERSON LOUISIANA. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH. ELSEWHERE...A NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM WINNSBORO TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA SOUTHWEST TO JUST WEST OF OAKDALE TO NEAR THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO EFFECT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. KEEP ALERT TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 1:30 PM CST, 52 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 127 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CST... AT 123 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING FROM JUST WEST OF CLINTON SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA TO JUST NORTH OF PLAQUEMINE LOUISIANA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED SOUTH OF THIS AREA FROM SOUTH OF PLAQUEMINE TO NEAR MORGAN CITY AND PATTERSON LOUISIANA. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH. ELSEWHERE...A NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM WINNSBORO TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA SOUTHWEST TO JUST WEST OF OAKDALE TO NEAR THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO EFFECT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. KEEP ALERT TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 68 min |
| Jan 18, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 66 min |
| Jan 18, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 28 min |
| Jan 18, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 59 min |
| Jan 18, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 64 min |
| Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 67 min |
| Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 36 min |
| Jan 18, 4:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 66 min |
| Jan 18, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 57 min |
| Jan 18, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 67 min |
| Jan 18, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | West Baton Rouge | 67 min |
| Jan 18, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | West Baton Rouge | 55 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.