Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1995, 7:47 PM CST for Claiborne Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1995, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1995, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 918 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSHV 280147 RRA SVRSHV LAC027-119-280230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 747 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ...NORTHEASTERN CLAIBORNE PARISH...NORTHERN WEBSTER PARISH AT 745 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADARS IN SHREVEPORT AND LONGVIEW INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTH OF MINDEN AND 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HAYNESVILLE LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. NNNN
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, 4 hours 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, 3:35 PM CST, 4 hours 12 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, 3 hours 32 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, 3 hours 5 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
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 6:15 PM CST, 1 hour 32 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-023-280130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 615 PM CST MON FEB 27 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA - SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS - EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS... AT 610 PM CST...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...WERE OCCURRING FROM JUST SOUTH OF WATERLOO ARKANSAS TO THE TEXARKANA AREA TO MAUD TEXAS...IN THE VICINITY OF RAYVILLE AND WINNSBORO LOUISIANA AND OVER EAST TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MANY LOUISIANA TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF LUFKIN TEXAS. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. DURING THE PAST HOUR MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND LARGER COVERED THE GROUND AT RED WATER TEXAS WHICH IS SOUTHWEST OF TEXARKANA IN BOWIE COUNTY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 27 min |
| Feb 27, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.