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Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 18, 1995East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 1995, 3:31 PM CST for East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 1995, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1995, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBTR 182132
TORBTR
LAC033-037-091-182230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
331 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH...EAST FELICIANA PARISH
   ...ST.HELENA PARISH
 
AT 330 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH
OF RYAN AIRPORT MOVING TOWARD BAKER AND ZACHERY. THIS THUNDERSTORM AS
WELL AS THE STORMS ALREADY IN EAST FELICIANA AND ST HELENA PARISHES MAY
PRODUCE MORE TORNADOS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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...P ILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge	68 min
Jan 18, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville	68 min
Jan 18, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary	58 min
Jan 18, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Catahoula	66 min
Jan 18, 3:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	28 min
Jan 18, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	64 min
Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	67 min
Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	36 min
Jan 18, 4:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	66 min
Jan 18, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	57 min
Jan 18, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	67 min
Jan 18, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	West Baton Rouge	67 min
Jan 18, 5:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	West Baton Rouge	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.