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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 27, 1995Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 4:02 PM CST for Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1995, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1995, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 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

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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, 2:32 PM CST, 1 hour 30 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
Jan 27, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Landry	59 min
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, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Avoyelles, Catahoula	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.