Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 33, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 2:43 PM CDT for Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Amite County, MS, Pike County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 081945 TORNEW MSC005-113-082045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 243 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...AMITE COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY AT 240 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 1 MILE EAST OF LIBERTY MISSISSIPPI BY PIKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THE TORNADO IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST AMITE AND NORTHERN PIKE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET U^NDER 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, 8:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 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, 4 hours 56 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.
Local storm report, May 8, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
1256 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
TIME/CDT PARISH/LOCATION ...REPORTS FOR MAY 8...
1143 AM AVOYELLES GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN BUNKIE BY
POLICE DEPARTEMNT.
1210 AM AVOYELLES TORNADO REPORTED JUST EAST OF BUNKIE BY
SPOTTERS.The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 55 min |
| May 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 62 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 33 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.