Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 32, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 11:09 AM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 11:09 AM CDT (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Avoyelles Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 081610 RRA TORBTR LAC009-081715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1109 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...AVOYELLES PARISH A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM OAKDALE TO EUNICE ...BASILE AND JENNINGS. A TORNADO WAS FORMING 20 MILES SOUTHEST OF BUNKIE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 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, May 8, 7:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 715 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING FOR AVOYELLES PARISH... AT 710 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM FORT POLK EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO WINNFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 8:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 855 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES... AT 850 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM VINTON AND LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS FORT POLK AND ALEXANDRIA TO NEAR COLUMBIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STA"TEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 9:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
LAZ029-033-081700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 948 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES... AT 945 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS OAKDALE AND BUNKIE TO ALEXANDRIA AND HARRISONBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AVOYELLES AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERSTORMS CROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER SnTATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 68 min |
| May 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 60 min |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 55 min |
| May 8, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 69 min |
| May 8, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 55 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 66 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 66 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Helena | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 66 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa, Washington | 56 min |
| May 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary, Terrebonne | 61 min |
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 58 min |
| May 8, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 65 min |
| May 8, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 56 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.