Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 18, 1995, 12:48 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Washington Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1995, 12:48 PM CST (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1995, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Covington, LA | Four trees were downed across Bennett Bridge Road. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 777 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 39 min |
| Dec 18, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint James | 32 min |
| Dec 18, 11:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 47 min |
| Dec 18, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 12:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 34 min |
| Dec 18, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 62 min |
| Dec 18, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 44 min |
| Dec 18, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne | 61 min |
| Dec 18, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 56 min |
| Dec 17, 6:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 26 min |
| Dec 17, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 37 min |
| Dec 18, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 18 min |
| Dec 18, 7:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 21 min |
| Dec 18, 10:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 42 min |
| Dec 18, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 49 min |
| Dec 18, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.