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Tornado Warning 45, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 3641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 102030 TORBTR LAC009-097-102130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 330 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...SOUTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH...NORTHERN ST.LANDRY PARISH AT 330 PM CDT...FIRE RESCUE UNITS REPORTED A TORNADO NORTH OF BUNKIE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 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 10, 9:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
LAZ029-033-101700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 935 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 930 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE TO NEW ROADS AND KENTWOOD. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ACROSS THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA...HAMMOND AND SLIDELL TO MORGAN CITY AND NEW ORLEANS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA 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 THE AREA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 11:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ029-033-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1125 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 1120 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM MORGANZA TO ARCOLA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A PLAQUEMINE TO COVINGTON LINE EXTENDING TO JEANERETTE...THIBODAUX AND NEW ORLEANS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA 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 THE AREA THIS MORNING. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
LAZ029-033-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 120 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM NEW ROADS TO BREAUX BRIDGE SOUTHEAST TO MORGAN CITY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF ERWINVILLE...NEAR NEW ROADS AND NORTH OF MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND... HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDERST8ORMS CROSS THE AREA TODAY. POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
LAZ029-033-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 125 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 120 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED RAIN AND SHOWERS FROM NEW ROADS TO BREAUX BRIDGE SOUTHEAST TO MORGAN CITY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF ERWINVILLE...NEAR NEW ROADS AND NORTH OF MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG AND GUSTY WIND... HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THUNDjERSTORMS CROSS THE AREA TODAY. REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS 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 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary | 58 min |
| May 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 61 min |
| May 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 59 min |
| May 9, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 58 min |
| May 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 65 min |
| May 9, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 54 min |
| May 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 65 min |
| May 9, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 63 min |
| May 10, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 63 min |
| May 10, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 2 hr |
| May 10, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 68 min |
| May 10, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 4 hr |
| May 10, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 56 min |
| May 10, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, Saint Martin | 67 min |
| May 10, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 69 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.