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Tornado Warning 4, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 18, 1995East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 1995, 4:53 PM CST for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 1995, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1995, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBTR 182254
TORBTR
LAC033-190000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
453 PM CST WED JAN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH
 
AT 450 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND
INTERSTATE 10.
 
THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR.
 
PERSONS IN THE WEST PORTION OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE SHOULD TAKE COVER
NOW.
 
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge	68 min
Jan 18, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville	68 min
Jan 18, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary	58 min
Jan 18, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Catahoula	66 min
Jan 18, 3:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	28 min
Jan 18, 3:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena	59 min
Jan 18, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	64 min
Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	67 min
Jan 18, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	36 min
Jan 18, 4:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	66 min
Jan 18, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	57 min
Jan 18, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	West Baton Rouge	67 min
Jan 18, 5:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	West Baton Rouge	55 min

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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.