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Tornado Warning 69, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 18, 1995, 9:15 AM CST for East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1995, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1995, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County East Feliciana Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 777 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 181516 TORNEW LAC037-181545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 915 AM CST MON DEC 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...EAST FELICIANA PARISH AT 912 AM CST...SLIDELL DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF PORT HUDSON. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR SLAUGHTER AND ETHEL BEFORE 930 AM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNI0TURE. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 39 min |
| Dec 18, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint James | 32 min |
| Dec 18, 11:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 47 min |
| Dec 18, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 12:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 34 min |
| Dec 18, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 62 min |
| Dec 18, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne | 44 min |
| Dec 18, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne | 61 min |
| Dec 18, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 56 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.