Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 60, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 2, 1995, 11:00 AM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana; Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 1995, 11:00 AM CST (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 1995, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Hancock County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 2004 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 021708 COR TORNEW LAC103-MSC045-021730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION... TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CST THU NOV 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...SOUTHEASTERN ST.TAMMANY PARISH IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. AT 1055 AM CST THE ST TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY JUST SOUTHEAST OF SLIDELL ON LOUISIANA HIGHWAY 433. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF HANCOCK COUNTY BETWEEN NOW AND 1130 AM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. & CORRECTION MADE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR
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, Nov 2, 7:59 AM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
755 AM CST THU NOV 2 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION......STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0435 AM MORGANAZA LA WIND DAMAGE
11/02/95 POINT COUPEE LARGE TREES LIMBS DOWNED
BY THUNDERSTORM WIND
0700 AM WILMER LA HAIL
11/02/95 TANGIPAHOA HAIL SIZE UNKNOWN
0640 AM WILMER LA WIND DAMAGE
11/02/95 TANGIPAHOA TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS.
REPORT FROM SHERIFFSThe office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 3:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 65 min |
| Nov 2, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 42 min |
| Nov 2, 5:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 63 min |
| Nov 2, 5:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 52 min |
| Nov 2, 6:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 6:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 62 min |
| Nov 2, 6:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 62 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.