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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 20, 1995East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1995, 3:55 PM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 1995, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 20, 3:16 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 3:20 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	59 min
Aug 20, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	63 min
Aug 20, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	63 min
Aug 20, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	66 min
Aug 20, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson	66 min
Aug 20, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	70 min
Aug 20, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Livingston	65 min
Aug 20, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville, West Baton Rouge	65 min
Aug 20, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Terrebonne	65 min
Aug 20, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption	60 min
Aug 20, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, Terrebonne	65 min
Aug 20, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	55 min
Aug 20, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	55 min
Aug 20, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	41 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.