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Tornado Warning 7, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 27, 1995Avoyelles Parish, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 27, 1995, 5:43 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 1995, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 1995, 6:45 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 398 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 220 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBTR 272343
TORBTR
LAC009-025-280045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
543 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH...CATAHOULA PARISH
 
AT 542 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
EFFIE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Landry59 min
Jan 27, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana59 min
Jan 27, 11:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Martin49 min
Jan 27, 11:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberville, Pointe Coupee55 min
Jan 27, 12:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXIberia, Saint Martin44 min
Jan 27, 12:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge64 min
Jan 27, 2:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany, Tangipahoa62 min
Jan 27, 4:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana58 min

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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.