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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 7, 1993Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 1993, 6:04 PM CDT for Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

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The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 1993, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1993-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1993-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 324 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard63 min
Apr 7, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron58 min
Apr 7, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline60 min
Apr 7, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia67 min
Apr 7, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu61 min
Apr 7, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.