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Tornado Warning 23, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1995, 7:11 PM CDT for Pike County, Walthall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 230012 TORNEW MSC113-147-230115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 711 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY...NORTHERN WALTHALL COUNTY AT 710 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DROPPLE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER NORTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST 25 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ABOUT 7 PM CDT NEAR THE AMITE AND PIKE COUNTY LINE NORTHWEST OF MC COMB. 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, 4:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 545 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT TONIGHT FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 640 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EUNICE AND BUNKIE EXTENDING EAST ACROSS ANGOLA AND LIVONIA TO KENTWOOD... GREENSBURG AND DENHAM SPRINGS AND FROM LECOMPTE AND MEEKER TO LARTO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN OVER MISSISSIPPI FROM WOODVILLE TO BROOKHAVEN AND MCCOMB. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEMENTS 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, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Harrison | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Apr 23, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 94 min |
| Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 118 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.