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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 6, 1995Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 2:32 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1995, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1995, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Tangipahoa Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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, Mar 6, 1:36 PM CST, 56 minutes before

LAZ050-062040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
136 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ROLLING THROUGH EASTERN LIVINGSTON PARISH...

AT 130 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES
SOUTHSOUTHWEST OF HAMMOND MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHNORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PEOPLE IN EASTERN LIVINGSTON PARISH CAN EXPECT THIS THUNDERSTORM
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

Local storm report, Mar 6, 2:29 PM CST, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 6, 2:30 PM CST, 2 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
Mar 6, 9:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	55 min
Mar 6, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	65 min
Mar 6, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	58 min
Mar 6, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist	39 min
Mar 6, 2:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	56 min
Mar 6, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	60 min
Mar 6, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.