Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 11:01 AM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1995, 11:01 AM CST (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1995, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 27, 8:55 AM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 855 AM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR AVOYELLES PARISH IS CANCELLED... AT 850 AM CST RAIN HAD STOPPED LONG ENOUGH FOR THE WATER TO RECEED FROM THE ROADS AND STREETS ACROSS THE PARISH. RAIN IS STILL FORECAST TO CONTINUE ACROSS AVOYELLES PARISH TODAY AS WELL AS THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. RESIDENTS AROUND THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS MORE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TODAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 8:59 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-033>037-046>050-271600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 855 AM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR AVOYELLES PARISH IS CANCELLED... AT 850 AM CST RAIN HAD STOPPED LONG ENOUGH FOR THE WATER TO RECEED FROM THE ROADS AND STREETS ACROSS THE PARISH. RAIN IS STILL FORECAST TO CONTINUE ACROSS AVOYELLES PARISH TODAY AS WELL AS THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. RESIDENTS AROUND THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS MORE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 59 min |
| Jan 27, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 11:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, Pointe Coupee | 55 min |
| Jan 27, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 44 min |
| Jan 27, 12:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 64 min |
| Jan 27, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 62 min |
| Jan 27, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 58 min |
| Jan 27, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Catahoula | 62 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.