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Tornado Warning 66, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 17, 1995Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 1995, 3:30 PM CST for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 1995, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 1995, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Pike County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 297 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 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 KNEW 172131
TORNEW
LAC105-MSC113-172215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
330 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...TANGIPAHOA PARISH
 
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 327 PM CST...SLIDELL DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE REGION AT 35 TO 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH AND SEVERAL TORNADOES WITH DAMAGE HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
LINE OF STORMS AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE BATON ROUGE AND DENAM SPRINGS AREA
WITHIN THE PAST HOUR.
 
PERSONS FROM SUMMIT AND MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI SOUTHWARD TO PONCHATOULA AS
WELL AS LAKE MAUREPAS ARE IN THE LINE OF THIS DANGEROUS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	46 min
Dec 17, 2:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	37 min
Dec 17, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge	60 min
Dec 17, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge	29 min
Dec 17, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana	41 min
Dec 17, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena	43 min
Dec 17, 3:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena	34 min
Dec 17, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Ascension	27 min
Dec 17, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	63 min
Dec 17, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite	30 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.