Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 7:21 PM CST for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 7:21 PM CST (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 7:51 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafourche Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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, 1:27 PM CST, 5 hours 54 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, 5 hours 51 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, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa, Washington | 58 min |
| Jan 18, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 64 min |
| Jan 18, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 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.