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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 23, 1995Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 12:31 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1995, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1731 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1731 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
8.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle68 min
Apr 23, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon59 min
Apr 22, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAngelina48 min
Apr 22, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper40 min
Apr 22, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin27 min
Apr 23, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Orange44 min
Apr 23, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHNewton46 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.