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Tornado Warning 51, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 11:54 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1995, 12:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pearl River County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 190456 TORNEW MSC109-190545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1154 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...CENTRAL PEARL RIVER COUNTY AT 1155 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SLIDELL INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR MS HIGHWAY 15 OR 5 MILES EAST OF BOGOLUSA MOVING EAST AT CLOSE TO 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS CLOSE TO THE TOWN OF CROSSROADS WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. 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
Local storm report, May 18, 7:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS...CORRECTED DAY DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
715 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
0600 PM BAKER LA MINOR WIND DAMAGE REPORTED TO
04/18/95 EAST BATON PARISH SEVERAL HOMES. TREES DOWNED.
REPORT FROM BAKER POLICE DEPT.Local storm report, May 18, 7:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 12 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
0600 PM BAKER LA MINOR WIND DAMAGE REPORTED TO
04/18/95 EAST BATON PARISH SEVERAL HOMES. TREES DOWNED.
REPORT FROM BAKER POLICE DEPT.Special weather statement, May 18, 8:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
LAZ047-048-050-190245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 843 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR EAST BATON ROUGE AND LIVINGSTON PARISHES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR DENHAM SPRINGS CROSSING INTO WESTERN LIVINGSTON PARISH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. WSO BATON ROUGE RECEIVED REPORTS OF TREES DOWN IN EASTERN WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS STORM. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 61 min |
| May 18, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 69 min |
| May 19, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 63 min |
| May 19, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 26 min |
| May 19, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 2 hr |
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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.