Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1995, 1:25 AM CST for Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1995, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1995, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bienville Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSHV 050725 RRA SVRSHV LAC013-050830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 125 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ...BIENVILLE PARISH AT 120 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN BIENVILLE PARISH ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF RINGGOLD MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM CST FOR SOUTHERN BOSSIER AND SOUTHERN WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BOSSIER CITY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN WEBSTER PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR SOUTHWEST OF MINDEN... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND A SMALL PART OF EAST TEXAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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, Mar 4, 10:13 PM CST, 3 hours 12 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1013 PM CST SAT MAR 4 1995 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT... ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA... AT 1008 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADARS IN SHREVEPORT AND LONGVIEW INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN LOUISIANA NEAR CONVERSE AND EAST OF CENTER TEXAS OVER NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS...ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE ...OVER EAST TEXAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS AND FARMERVILLE LOUISIANA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR DE BERRY TEXAS AND MANSFIELD LOUISIANA. SURFACE REPORTS ALSO INDICATED DRIZZLE OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG. THE FOG HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME. THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE. LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 11:00 PM CST, 2 hours 25 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1100 PM CST SAT MAR 4 1995 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 1050 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA BETWEEN MANSFIELD ...CAMPTI...AND RINGGOLD. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR COUSHATTA AND ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD. THESE STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MPH... AND BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL ALSO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN AND SHOWERS OVER NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS FROM NEAR JONESBORO/HODGE LOUISIANA NORTHEAST TO NEAR WARREN ARKANSAS AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG. THE FOG HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME. THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE. LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 11:07 PM CST, 2 hours 18 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1100 PM CST SAT MAR 4 1995 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 1050 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA BETWEEN MANSFIELD ...CAMPTI...AND RINGGOLD. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR COUSHATTA AND ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD. THESE STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MPH... AND BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL ALSO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN AND SHOWERS OVER NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS FROM NEAR JONESBORO/HODGE LOUISIANA NORTHEAST TO NEAR WARREN ARKANSAS AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG. THE FOG HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME. THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE. LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 11:30 PM CST, 1 hour 55 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1130 PM CST SAT MAR 4 1995 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 1125 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA NEAR RINGGOLD AND JUST SOUTH OF GIBSLAND. THE STRONGER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RINGGOLD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO NEAR 45 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED RAIN AND SHOWERS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NEAR LONGVIEW NORTHEAST TO NEAR MARSHALL AND IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM NEAR IDA LOUISIANA NORTHEAST TO NEAR HOPE AND WATERLOO ARKANSAS...ALSO FROM NEAR CALHOUN AND FARMERVILLE LOUISIANA NORTHEAST TO NEAR MONTICELLO AND LAKE VILLAGE ARKANSAS. THE RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG. THE FOG HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME. THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE. LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:06 AM CST, 19 minutes before
STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
106 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995
STORM REPORTS FOR SUNDAY MARCH 5TH 1995
TIME CST PARISH/COUNTY/STATE EVENT/LOCATION
1225 AM BOSSIER LA LARGE MARBLE SIZE HAIL (0.75 INCHES) AT
SLIGO. NOTICE TO SELS...THE LOCATION IS
NOT SILGO AS REFERRED TO IN THE NEWSVRSHV
STATEMENT ISSUED AT 1242 AM.Special weather statement, Mar 5, 1:10 AM CST, 15 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- 013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050800- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 110 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT... ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 105 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 100 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR SPARKMAN ARKANSAS TO FOUKE ARKANSAS TO NEAR TATUM TEXAS TO NEAR CHIRENO TEXAS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HAIL...GUSTY WINDS NEAR 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE NOTED NORTHEAST OF BERNICE LOUISIANA NEAR HOMER...NEAR MINDEN...NEAR RINGGOLD...NEAR HALL SUMMIT AND NEAR MANSFIELD LOUISIANA AS WELL AS NEAR DE BERRY TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. SURFACE REPORTS ALSO INDICATED DRIZZLE OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS NO IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF LOUISIANA AND PARTS OF EXTREME EASTERN TEXAS UNTIL 700 AM. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG. THE FOG HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME. THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE. LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 61 min |
| Mar 5, 12:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 12:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 12:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 68 min |
| Mar 5, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 1:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Tensas | 31 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.