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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 9, 1994Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 9:01 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 44 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1994, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Lafayette Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1994-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3545 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1994-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3545 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia58 min
Jun 9, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVermilion59 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.