Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 8:25 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 8:25 AM CST (14:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catahoula Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1025 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBTR 071425 TORBTR LAC025-071530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 825 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...EASTERN CATAHOULA PARISH TORNADOS WERE REPORTED ON THE GROUND 5 MILES NORTH AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF JONESVILLE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON 4CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 2:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Concordia | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 7:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 7:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 69 min |
| Mar 7, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston, Saint Helena | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 10:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 10:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 10:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 10:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 10:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 11:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 58 min |
| Mar 7, 11:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Saint Charles | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines | 59 min |
| Mar 7, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 5:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines | 63 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.