Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 10:35 AM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 10:35 AM CST (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 061636 RRA SVRBTR LAC009-097-061730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1035 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...AVOYELLES PARISH...ST.LANDRY PARISH RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...12 MILES WIDE...EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE THROUGH OPELOUSAS TO 30 MILES EAST OF ALEXANDRIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. TROOPERS ESTIMATED WINDS 60 TO 70 MPH IN THE MARKSVILLE AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR AND REPORTED POWER POLES DOWNED IN MOREAUVILLE...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARKSVILLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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 6, 8:12 AM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-061515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 812 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATAHOULA...AVOYELLES...AND CONCORDIA PARISHES...IS CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT... AT 802 AM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PARISHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN IN WESTERN LOUISIANA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS LIKELY THIS MORNING. YOU SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF LATEST DEVELOPMENTS BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATC FTHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 8:12 AM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-061515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 812 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATAHOULA...AVOYELLES...AND CONCORDIA PARISHES...IS CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT... AT 802 AM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PARISHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN IN WESTERN LOUISIANA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS LIKELY THIS MORNING. YOU SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF LATEST DEVELOPMENTS BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATC FTHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Concordia | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 59 min |
| Jan 6, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 57 min |
| Jan 6, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 56 min |
| Jan 6, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 68 min |
| Jan 6, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 1:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 40 min |
| Jan 6, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 49 min |
| Jan 6, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 57 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.