Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 12:22 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, Washington Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 061823 RRA SVRNEW LAC103-105-117-061930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1222 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHESS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN ST.TAMMANY PARISH...NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH ...WASHINGTON PARISH AT 1220 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LORANGER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, 4 hours 10 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, 4 hours 10 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, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 59 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, 12:25 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
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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.