Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 4:33 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tangipahoa Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 3999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 182134 RRA SVRNEW LAC105-182200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 433 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT 432 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN SLIDELL INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING TANGIPAHOA PARISH FROM THE EAST. THIS LINE WILL PASS ACROSS THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT ABOUT 20 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR AS THIS LINE OF STORMS PASSES ACROSS THE PARISH THROUGH 5 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. b
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, Aug 18, 12:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1245 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION......STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0627 AM 75 S THIBODAUX VORTAC LA 81 MPH WIND GUST
08/18/95 GULF OF MEXICO REPORTED BY HELICOPTER
PILOT REPORT OFF AN OIL
RIG PLATFORM. SUSTAINED
SURFACE WINDS 63 TO 69 MPH
GUSTS TO 81 MPH.Local storm report, Aug 18, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
229 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION......STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0200 PM BATON ROUGE LA TORNADO
08/18/95 E BATON ROUGE ON THE GROUND 12 MINUTES.
ONE ROOF REMOVED AND
TREES DOWNED IN
SHENANDOAH SUBDIVISION.
REPORTED BY BATON ROUGE
P.D. RELAYED BY WSO BTR.
RJRThe office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 27 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.