Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 11:16 AM CST for Iberia Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 11:16 AM CST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iberia Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
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, Jan 6, 8:12 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-061515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 812 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATAHOULA...AVOYELLES...AND CONCORDIA PARISHES...IS CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT... AT 802 AM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PARISHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN IN WESTERN LOUISIANA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS LIKELY THIS MORNING. YOU SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF LATEST DEVELOPMENTS BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATC FTHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 8:12 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LAZ024-026-029-061515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 812 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATAHOULA...AVOYELLES...AND CONCORDIA PARISHES...IS CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT... AT 802 AM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OUT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PARISHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEEN IN WESTERN LOUISIANA MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS LIKELY THIS MORNING. YOU SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF LATEST DEVELOPMENTS BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATC FTHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Concordia | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 55 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Saint Helena | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 57 min |
| Jan 6, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 56 min |
| Jan 6, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 68 min |
| Jan 6, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 1:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 65 min |
| Jan 6, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 40 min |
| Jan 6, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 49 min |
| Jan 6, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every 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.