Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1995, 4:50 PM CST for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1995, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ouachita Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 3:32 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OKZ076-077-049-053-TXZ095-097-TXZ106>112-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-ARZ059>061-ARZ066-ARZ070>073-LAZ001>026-272230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 332 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR AT 3:30 PM SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA FROM SOUTHEAST OF MINDEN TO JUST NORTHWEST OF MONROE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RUSTON. MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD NEAR 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL... ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 3:35 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
OKZ076-077-049-053-TXZ095-097-TXZ106>112-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-ARZ059>061-ARZ066-ARZ070>073-LAZ001>026-272230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 332 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR AT 3:30 PM SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA FROM SOUTHEAST OF MINDEN TO JUST NORTHWEST OF MONROE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RUSTON. MOVEMENT WAS EASTWARD NEAR 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL... ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 4:15 PM CST, 35 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-153-ARZ050-051-059-060-061- 070-071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-012- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-023-272330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 415 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH LOUISIANA... AT 410 PM CST...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE OCCURRING FROM JUST NORTH OF RAYVILLE TO MONROE TO JONESBORO AND JUST SOUTH OF MANY. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MARBLE SIZE HAIL... HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 50 MPH. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 4:42 PM CST, 8 minutes before
LAZ014-015-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 442 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 AT 435 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED MAINLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF MONROE IN OUACHTA PARISH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES EASTWARD ACROSS OUACHITA PARISH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN ANGELINA AND SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTIES IN EAST TEXAS. NNNN
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.