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Tornado Warning 35, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 3:19 PM CDT for Tangipahoa Parish, Washington Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 082022 TORNEW LAC105-117-082115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 319 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 ...TANGIPAHOA PARISH...WESTERN WASHINGTON PARISH AT 320 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER ST HELENA NEAR GRANGEVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACRPSS NORTH TANGIPAHOAND WESTERN WASHINGTON PARISH BETWEEN NOW AND 415 PM. 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, May 8, 9:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 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 22 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, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 64 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.