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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 27, 1995Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 2:43 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 1995, 2:43 PM CST (20:43 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 1995, 3:45 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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, 5 hours 48 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, 5 hours 44 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, 2:32 PM CST, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry59 min
Jan 27, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana59 min
Jan 27, 11:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Martin49 min
Jan 27, 11:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville, Pointe Coupee55 min
Jan 27, 12:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberia, Saint Martin44 min
Jan 27, 12:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge64 min
Jan 27, 4:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana58 min
Jan 27, 5:43 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXAvoyelles, Catahoula62 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.