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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 14, 1994Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1994, 6:29 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 1994, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, 3 hours 49 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, 3 hours 46 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, 5:43 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:45 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Vermilion	64 min
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

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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.