Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 20, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1995, 5:11 PM CDT for Walthall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walthall County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 222212 TORNEW MSC147-222300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 511 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...WALTHALL COUNTY AT 505 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE RECEIVED A REPORT FROM A CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICAL OF A TORNADO IN SOUTHEAST PIKE COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAY 575. THIS STORM IS STILL MOVING EAST AT 25 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. &
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, Apr 22, 11:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
LAZ009-097-221800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1115 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 1115 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA THROUGH MONROE INTO MISSISSIPPI NEAR LAUREL. THIS AREA WAS SLOWLY SOUTH WITH THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 1:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
LAZ009-097-221900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 100 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 100 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONROE TO JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SOUTH THROUGH ALEXANDRIA AND MC COMB TO BATON ROUGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:13 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
LAZ029-033-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 415 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 410 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LEBEAU AND MELVILLE EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO ALEXANDRIA AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM ANGOLA AND LIVONIA EAST ACROSS CLINTON AND BATON ROUGE TO BOGALUSA AND COVINGTON AND FROM WOODVILLE TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEM0ENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 52 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.