Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 26, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ascension Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 231028 TORNEW LAC005-063-093-095-105-231130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 527 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...ASCENSION PARISH...SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON PARISH ...ST.JAMES PARISH...ST.JOHN.BAPTIST PARISH ...SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH AT 5:23 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM GONZALES LOUISIANA SOUTHWARD TO NEAR HOUMA LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. ST. MARY'S SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN FRANKLIN REPORTS 2 TRAILERS DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS ROOFS OFF HOUSES. 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 vSMALL 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. TAKE COVER NOW! &
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, 11:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1150 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... AT 1145 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAFAYETTE... EUNICE AND OAKDALE EXTENDING ACROSS MORGANZA...BUNKIE AND MARKSVILLE TO NATCHEZ AND BROOKHAVEN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT THIS MORNING ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS MORNING AND TODAY... AT 120 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRAND CHENIER EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS SUNSET AND LAFAYETTE...NEW ROADS AND CLINTON TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THEY CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES SHOULD RE4MAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Apr 23, 4:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
425 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995
TIME/CDT PARISH/LOCATION ...REPORTS FOR APRIL 23...
1220AM AVOYELLES SHERIFF REPORTED TREES DOWN HIGHWAY 1 NEAR
ZION ROAD IN COTTONPORT.
303 AM ST LANDRY SHERIFF REPORTED SOME TREES DOWN AND STREET
FLOODING NEAR WHITEVILLE IN NORTHERN ST
LANDRY.
323 AM AVOYELLES DELAYED REPORT OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR
BUNKIE BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT.The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 117 min |
| Apr 23, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary, Terrebonne | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 65 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.