Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1994, 5:51 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1994, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1994, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 232252 RRA SVRLCH LAC023-240000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 551 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CAMERON PARISH AT 548 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST CAMERON PARISH..25 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR nPROTECTION 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.
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, Jul 23, 4:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-503-232245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 448 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...A SPECIAL MARINE IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 640 PM CDT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER NORTHWEST VERMILION BAY...JUST WEST AND SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE...OVER CAMERON...AND BETWEEN KINDER AND CROWLEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MARINERS FROM THE COAST SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS...TO KIRBYVILLE...THROUGH EUNICE AND LAFAYETTE...TO MORGAN CITY. THE AREA EXTENDED SOUTH TO BEAUMONT...AND TO THE COAST BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND ATCHAFALAUYA BAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WERE SHOWN 40 TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE BETWEEN CAMERON AND ATCHAFALAYA BAY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-503-232245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 448 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...A SPECIAL MARINE IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 640 PM CDT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER NORTHWEST VERMILION BAY...JUST WEST AND SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE...OVER CAMERON...AND BETWEEN KINDER AND CROWLEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MARINERS FROM THE COAST SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS...TO KIRBYVILLE...THROUGH EUNICE AND LAFAYETTE...TO MORGAN CITY. THE AREA EXTENDED SOUTH TO BEAUMONT...AND TO THE COAST BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND ATCHAFALAUYA BAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WERE SHOWN 40 TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE BETWEEN CAMERON AND ATCHAFALAYA BAY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:21 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
TXZ201-181-215-182-216-180-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 521 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE... AT 520 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM BEAUMONT AND FANNETT...EAST TO BRIDGE CITY AND PORT ARTHUR. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY DRIFT TO THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 31 MILES AN HOUR DURING THE PAST 25 MINUTES AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT IN MID COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM CLEVELAND TO VOTAW SOUTH TO DAISETTA...AND OVER MUCH OF NEWTON COUNTY FROM BURKEVILLE SOUTH TO NEWTON...KIRBYVILLE...AND EAST TO THE SABINE RIVER. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE TRIANGLE CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...LOCAL GUSTY WINDS...AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THESE STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO WEAKEN WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JAMES NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TXZ215-216-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 534 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...SPECIAL CLIMATE REPORT... AS OF 533 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT RECEIVED 0.36 OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL FROM A PASSING THUNDERSTORM. DCG NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:40 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-502-503-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...THE SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.... ...AN URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 605 PM CDT FOR CALCASIEU PARISH... AT 525 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE...TO DEQUINCY...TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS. THE AREA EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. A REPORT FROM A LAKE CHARLES OBSERVER WAS RECEIVED OF ONE INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES AND A REPORT OF MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS RECEIVED FROM AN OBSERVER IN SOUTHWEST LAKE CHARLES. OTHERWISE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEAR KIRBYVILLE...JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY...AND SOUTHEAST OF CONROE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:41 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-502-503-232345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1994 ...THE SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.... ...AN URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 605 PM CDT FOR CALCASIEU PARISH... AT 525 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SHOWN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE...TO DEQUINCY...TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS. THE AREA EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. A REPORT FROM A LAKE CHARLES OBSERVER WAS RECEIVED OF ONE INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES AND A REPORT OF MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS RECEIVED FROM AN OBSERVERT IN SOUTHWEST LAKE CHARLES. OTHERWISE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEAR KIRBYVILLE...JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY...AND SOUTHEAST OF CONROE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
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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.