Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 18, 7:18 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS...CORRECTED DAY DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
715 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
0600 PM BAKER LA MINOR WIND DAMAGE REPORTED TO
04/18/95 EAST BATON PARISH SEVERAL HOMES. TREES DOWNED.
REPORT FROM BAKER POLICE DEPT.Local storm report, May 18, 7:18 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 12 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
0600 PM BAKER LA MINOR WIND DAMAGE REPORTED TO
04/18/95 EAST BATON PARISH SEVERAL HOMES. TREES DOWNED.
REPORT FROM BAKER POLICE DEPT.The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Tangipahoa | 48 min |
| May 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 61 min |
| May 18, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint James | 63 min |
| May 18, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 56 min |
| May 18, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 60 min |
| May 19, 2:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Orleans | 3 hr |
| May 19, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Bernard | 2 hr |
| May 19, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 68 min |
| May 19, 7:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 56 min |
| May 18, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 69 min |
| May 18, 11:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 25 min |
| May 19, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 63 min |
| May 19, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 26 min |
| May 19, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 2 hr |
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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.