Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 8:58 AM CST for East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 8:58 AM CST (14:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 875 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 902 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, Jan 6, 4:25 AM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
OKZ049-053-076-077-TXZ095-097-106>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-059>061-066-070>073-LAZ001>026-061110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 425 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... ...RAIN...SHOWERS...WINTERY WEATHER...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 420 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO BERNICE...MINDEN... AND MANSFIELD LOUISIANA AND SAN AUGUSTINE AND LUFKIN TEXAS. THE PRECIPITATION CONSISTED OF FREEZING DRIZZLE...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET... SHOWERS..AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE WINTERY MIX WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAUD TEXAS EAST TO TEXARKANA AND WATERLOO ARKANSAS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WERE NEAR FREEZING OR BELOW FREEZING AND ACCUMULATATION WILL OCCUR ON EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES AND POWER LINES...CARS...BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES..AND ELEVATED ROAD SURFACES RESULTING IN VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS..AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PLAIN DEALING LOUISIANA AND MARSHALL AND CARTHAGE TEXAS WITH OTHER HEAVIER RAINFALL NEAR HAYNESVILLE...LAKE BISTINEAU...AND STONEWALL LOUISIANA. LUCKILY THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN AN AREA THAT HAD TEMPERATURES ABOVE FREEZING AT 420 AM. EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE ICING ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND TRAVEL WITH CAUTION. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ENDING THE ICING CONDITIONS BY MID DAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 4:29 AM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
OKZ049-053-076-077-TXZ095-097-106>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-059>061-066-070>073-LAZ001>026-061110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 425 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... ...RAIN...SHOWERS...WINTERY WEATHER...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 420 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO BERNICE...MINDEN... AND MANSFIELD LOUISIANA AND SAN AUGUSTINE AND LUFKIN TEXAS. THE PRECIPITATION CONSISTED OF FREEZING DRIZZLE...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET... SHOWERS..AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE WINTERY MIX WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAUD TEXAS EAST TO TEXARKANA AND WATERLOO ARKANSAS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WERE NEAR FREEZING OR BELOW FREEZING AND ACCUMULATATION WILL OCCUR ON EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES AND POWER LINES...CARS...BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES..AND ELEVATED ROAD SURFACES RESULTING IN VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS..AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PLAIN DEALING LOUISIANA AND MARSHALL AND CARTHAGE TEXAS WITH OTHER HEAVIER RAINFALL NEAR HAYNESVILLE...LAKE BISTINEAU...AND STONEWALL LOUISIANA. LUCKILY THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN AN AREA THAT HAD TEMPERATURES ABOVE FREEZING AT 420 AM. EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE ICING ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND TRAVEL WITH CAUTION. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ENDING THE ICING CONDITIONS BY MID DAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 5:22 AM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
OKZ049-053-076-077-TXZ095-097-106>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-059>061-066-070>073-LAZ001>026-061330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 525 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.. ...RAIN...SHOWERS...WINTERY WEATHER...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 520 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO RUSTON AND FLORIEN LOUISIANA TO NEWTON TEXAS. THE PRECIPATATION CONSISTED OF FREEZING RAIN AND DRIZZLE...SLEET...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE WINTERY MIX WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAUD TEXAS TO TEXARKANA AND NEAR WATERLOO ARKANSAS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH- EAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE RED RIVER IN NORTHEAST TEXAS WERE AT OR BELOW FREEZING AND ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE WILL OCCUR ON EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES...POWER LINES...CARS.. BRIDGES...OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROAD SURFACES WHICH WILL RESULT IN VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE. THE PRECIPATATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS..AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS THROUGH THE SHREVEPORT AREA INTO TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY. FORTUNATELY...THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OCCURRING IN AREA THAT HAS ABOVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES AS OF 520 AM. EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE ICING ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND TRAVEL WITH CAUTION. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AROUND MID DAY. ENDING THE ICING CONDITIONS BY MID DAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 5:24 AM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
OKZ049-053-076-077-TXZ095-097-106>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-059>061-066-070>073-LAZ001>026-061330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 525 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.. ...RAIN...SHOWERS...WINTERY WEATHER...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 520 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO RUSTON AND FLORIEN LOUISIANA TO NEWTON TEXAS. THE PRECIPATATION CONSISTED OF FREEZING RAIN AND DRIZZLE...SLEET...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE WINTERY MIX WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAUD TEXAS TO TEXARKANA AND NEAR WATERLOO ARKANSAS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH- EAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE RED RIVER IN NORTHEAST TEXAS WERE AT OR BELOW FREEZING AND ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE WILL OCCUR ON EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES...POWER LINES...CARS.. BRIDGES...OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROAD SURFACES WHICH WILL RESULT IN VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE. THE PRECIPATATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS..AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS THROUGH THE SHREVEPORT AREA INTO TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY. FORTUNATELY...THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OCCURRING IN AREA THAT HAS ABOVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES AS OF 520 AM. EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE ICING ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND TRAVEL WITH CAUTION. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AROUND MID DAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 5:25 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
OKZ049-053-076-077-TXZ095-097-106>112-124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-059>061-066-070>073-LAZ001>026-061330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 525 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.. ...RAIN...SHOWERS...WINTERY WEATHER...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND THE ADJACENT SECTION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 520 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO RUSTON AND FLORIEN LOUISIANA TO NEWTON TEXAS. THE PRECIPATATION CONSISTED OF FREEZING RAIN AND DRIZZLE...SLEET...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE WINTERY MIX WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAUD TEXAS TO TEXARKANA AND NEAR WATERLOO ARKANSAS. TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH- EAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND COUNTIES ADJACENT TO THE RED RIVER IN NORTHEAST TEXAS WERE AT OR BELOW FREEZING AND ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE WILL OCCUR ON EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES...POWER LINES...CARS.. BRIDGES...OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROAD SURFACES WHICH WILL RESULT IN VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE. THE PRECIPATATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS..AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS THROUGH THE SHREVEPORT AREA INTO TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY. FORTUNATELY...THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OCCURRING IN AREA THAT HAS ABOVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES AS OF 520 AM. EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE ICING ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AND TRAVEL WITH CAUTION. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX REGION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AROUND MID DAY. ENDING THE ICING CONDITIONS BY MID DAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 6:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 6:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 60 min |
| Jan 6, 7:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 26 min |
| Jan 6, 7:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Ouachita | 58 min |
| Jan 6, 7:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Morehouse | 58 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.