Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1994, 2:56 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1994, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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, Aug 14, 2:40 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-502-503-142040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 1994 AT 225 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN NEAR DE QUINCY AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCAL STREET FLOODING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF WODELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD TO NEAR BATON ROUGE TO MORGAN CITY TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE AND TO 20 MILES NORTH OF LUFKIN TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:43 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
LAZ020>022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-502-503-142040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 1994 AT 225 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN NEAR DE QUINCY AND WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCAL STREET FLOODING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF WODELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD TO NEAR BATON ROUGE TO MORGAN CITY TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE AND TO 20 MILES NORTH OF LUFKIN TEXAS^. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 62 min |
| Aug 14, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.