Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 12, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1995, 3:49 PM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1995, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1995, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catahoula Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 132150 TORBTR LAC025-132245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 349 PM CST MON MAR 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN CATAHOULA PARISH WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN BATON ROUGE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR JONESVILLE. SHERIFF OFFICE IN HARISONBURG REPORTED SEEING A FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG THE TENSAS RIVER BETWEEN JONESVILLE AND HARRISONBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWARD AT NEAR 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 13, 3:45 PM CST, 4 minutes before
LAZ037-038-039-040-080125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 345 PM CST MON MAR 13 1995 STRONG EAST WINDS ARE BLOWING ACROSS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. AT 330 PM CDT CAUSEWAY POLICE REPORTED E WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND GUSTY. AT 3 PM MANDEVILLE HAD AN EAST WIND OF 34 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE LAKEFRONT AIRPORT REPORTED AN EAST WIND OF 28 KNOTS OR 42 MILES AN HOUR. DRIVERS OF AUTOMOBILES AND ESPECIALLY HIGH PROFILE VECHILES SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS A SUDDEN GUST OF WIND COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. THERE IS A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND THE OTHER TIDAL LAKES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA BECAUSE OF THE STRONG WINDS CAUSED BY A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT. THE STRONG EAST AND SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BUT SHOULD DECREASE LATER TONIGHT. /
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 3:49 PM CST, 0 minutes before
LAZ037-038-039-040-080125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 345 PM CST MON MAR 13 1995 STRONG EAST WINDS ARE BLOWING ACROSS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. AT 330 PM CDT CAUSEWAY POLICE REPORTED E WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND GUSTY. AT 3 PM MANDEVILLE HAD AN EAST WIND OF 34 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE LAKEFRONT AIRPORT REPORTED AN EAST WIND OF 28 KNOTS OR 42 MILES AN HOUR. DRIVERS OF AUTOMOBILES AND ESPECIALLY HIGH PROFILE VECHILES SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AS A SUDDEN GUST OF WIND COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. THERE IS A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND THE OTHER TIDAL LAKES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA BECAUSE OF THE STRONG WINDS CAUSED BY A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT. THE STRONG EAST AND SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BUT SHOULD DECREASE LATER TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 69 min |
| Mar 13, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Concordia, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 55 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.