Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 7:54 AM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 7:54 AM CDT (12:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 081254 SVRBPT TXC199-081345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 754 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...HARDIN COUNTY AT 750 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF VOTAW TO NEAR DAISETTA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF VOTAW... BATSON...SARATOGA...VILLAGE MILLS...AND KOUNTZE OVER THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELjTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NNNN
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 8, 4:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-081545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 439 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MONDAY MORNING... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGHOUT TODAY... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST TEXAS THROUGHOUT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT THIS MONDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...JEFFERSON...ORANGE...HARDIN...TYLER ...JASPER...NEWTON...ANGELINA...NACOGDOCHES...SAN AUGUSTINE...AND SABINE COUNTIES. AT 435 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SHREVEPORT TO LUFKIN TO HUNTSVILLE TO BREHMAN TO AUSTIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 30 TO 40 MPH. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF WEATHER BEGINS TO THREATEN. SEEK SHELTER AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOA.A WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 8, 4:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ027-030>032-041>044-051-052-081050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 450 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR GRANT LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA VERNON ALLEN BEAUREGARD JEFFERSON DAVIS CALCASIEU CAMERON PARISHES INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON PARISH... AT 450 AM...THE LAKE CHARLES RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS WEST OF HOUSTON. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCDH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR LOCAL RADIO ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 8, 4:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
LAZ027-030>032-041>044-051-052-081050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 450 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR GRANT LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA VERNON ALLEN BEAUREGARD JEFFERSON DAVIS CALCASIEU CAMERON PARISHES INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON PARISH... AT 450 AM...THE LAKE CHARLES RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...FROM NEAR SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS WEST OF HOUSTON. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TO DEVELOP IN AJND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR LOCAL RADIO ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 8, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-081530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 630 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AND THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGHOUT TODAY... AT 625 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM LOCATED FROM THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO JASPER TO WOODVILLE TO HOUSTON TO VICTORIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 20 TO 30 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITER THE WEATHER THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON AS A SERIES OF SQUALLS ADVANCE AHEAD OF A STRONG DRY-LINE FRONT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS IN YOUR VEHICLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. PERSONS IN LOW-LYING AREAS SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS IN THE EVENT OF QUICKLY RISING WATERS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHR SERVICE. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 60 min |
| May 8, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 66 min |
| May 8, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 12 min |
| May 8, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.