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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 13, 1994Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 7:53 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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.

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: 1747 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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, May 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-140015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
609 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFY IN NORTHERN TYLER COUNTY...

AT 608 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING FROM
JUST NORTHWEST OF WOODVILLE TO NEAR DIBOLL IN SOUTHERN ANGELINA COUNTY.

ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SABINE COUNTY AND ACROSS
TOLEDO BEND LAKE INTO SABINE PARISH@ LOUSIANA.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THE SQUALL LINE TO THE WEST OF THE LAKES AREA WAS CONTINUING TO ADVANCE
EASTWARD.

DCG

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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

LAZ020-022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-140040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
635 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR GRANT
AND RAPIDES PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND ALLEN...BEAUREGARD...
EVANGELINE...AND VERNON PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA..

AT 625 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM JUST
SOUTHWEST OF LIBERTY TEXAS TO LAKE LIVINGSTON...BETWEEN WOODVILLE TEXAS
AND LUFKIN...AND FROM MANY LOUISIANA TO SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS.

OTHERWISE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY NORTHWEST
OF A LINE FROM FREEPORT TEXAS...TO HOUSTON...TO MANY LOUISIANA.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AND HOUR.

Special weather statement, May 13, 6:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 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
May 13, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	32 min
May 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	30 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.