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Tornado Warning 34, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 3:11 PM CDT for Livingston Parish, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Livingston Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 082014 TORNEW LAC063-091-082115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 311 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...LIVINGSTON PARISH...ST.HELENA PARISH AT 310 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A STRONG LIKLIHOOD OF A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR PRIDE LOUISIANA IN EXTREME NORTHEAST EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO ST HELENA AND LIVINGSTON PARISH. 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, 9:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 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, 2 hours 14 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, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 68 min |
| May 8, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Avoyelles | 66 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, 3:19 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.