Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 11:01 AM CST for West Feliciana 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 West Feliciana Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 271658 RRA SVRBTR LAC097-125-271800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1101 AM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...ST.LANDRY PARISH...WEST FELICIANA PARISH AT 1055 AM...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EVANGELINE AND ACADIA PARISHES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING ST. LANDRY PARISH SHORTLY. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF WEST FELICIANA PARISH...NEAR ST. FRANCISVILLE. THE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS WILL ALSO CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITHq 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 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 | Saint Landry | 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.