Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 2:36 AM CST for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 2:36 AM CST (08:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tensas Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:16 AM CST | Tornado F2 | Newellton, LA | A tornado destroyed a grocery store along Louisiana Highway 4 and damaged a house roof directly across the highway from the store. Path length and width estimated. |
| Mar 7, 3:45 AM CST | Tornado F2 | Newellton, LA | A tornado destroyed four houses and damaged seventeen others. Trees and power lines downed in several places. A women suffered a broken hip and arm. Also numerous trees and power lines were downed and schools were closed in Newellton for the day due to no |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 070836 TORSHV LAC107-070945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 236 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN TENSAS PARISH AT 235 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF NEW LIGHT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 2:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 2:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 64 min |
| Mar 7, 2:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Madison | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 7:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 7:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 7:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 8:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Tensas | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.