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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 6, 1995Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 6:35 PM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1995, 6:35 PM CST (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1995, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Saint Landry Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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, Mar 6, 4:27 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 6, 4:48 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 6, 4:50 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 6, 5:15 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 6, 5:17 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:21 PM CST, 14 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, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Washington	44 min
Mar 7, 2:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Concordia	65 min
Mar 7, 7:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Avoyelles, Saint Landry	61 min
Mar 7, 7:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Catahoula	61 min
Mar 7, 8:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Catahoula	65 min
Mar 7, 8:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	61 min
Mar 7, 8:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	West Feliciana	61 min
Mar 7, 8:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	69 min
Mar 7, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana	61 min
Mar 7, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Iberville	61 min
Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	57 min
Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Helena	57 min
Mar 7, 10:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge	57 min
Mar 7, 10:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston, Saint Helena	57 min
Mar 7, 10:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	67 min
Mar 7, 10:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	66 min
Mar 7, 10:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Iberville	66 min
Mar 7, 10:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	68 min
Mar 7, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	58 min
Mar 7, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Charles	58 min
Mar 7, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	60 min
Mar 7, 11:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	65 min
Mar 7, 11:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville	65 min
Mar 7, 11:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	64 min
Mar 7, 11:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson	64 min
Mar 7, 11:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	58 min
Mar 7, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles	63 min
Mar 7, 12:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Terrebonne	32 min
Mar 7, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	63 min
Mar 7, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson	63 min
Mar 7, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Plaquemines	59 min
Mar 7, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	65 min
Mar 7, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	49 min
Mar 7, 5:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	63 min
Mar 7, 9:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	54 min

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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.