Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 10:57 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 10:57 AM CDT (15:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
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 8, 6:29 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 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
Special weather statement, May 8, 8:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
LAZ027-030>032-041>044-051-052-081400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 805 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM FOR GRANT...LA SALLE... AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND FOR VERNON...ALLEN... BEAUREGARD...JEFFERSON DAVIS...CALCASIEU...AND CAMERON PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 755 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR LEESVILLE TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BEAUREGARD PARISH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Local storm report, May 8, 10:32 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR, TX
1030 AM CDT MON MAY 08 1995
REPORT FOR MONDAY MAY 08 1995
TIME CDT CITY/COUNTY EVENT
910 AM WEST BPT ALONG GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL
MAJOR ROAD REPORTED BY BEAUMONT
POLICE
915 PM HAMPSHIRE,TX POWERLINES AND STREET
18 MILES SSW BPT SIGNS DOWN. BPT DPS
JEFFERSON COUNTY
920 AM ORANGE COUNTY TREES DOWN COUNTY WIDE
ORANGE,TX ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF
945 AM PORT ARTHUR, TX POWERLINES/TREES DOWN
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON HWY 87. PORT ARTHUR PD
LINES HARDIN CO. BLOWN DOWN. SMALL FIRE
STARTED BY POWER LINES. NO
INJURIES. REPORTED BY DPS.Local storm report, May 8, 10:41 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT AMD ADDITIONAL REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR, TX
1030 AM CDT MON MAY 08 1995
REPORT FOR MONDAY MAY 08 1995
TIME CDT CITY/COUNTY EVENT
845 AM BPT MUNICIPAL WIND GUST OF 60 MPH
AIRPORT BPT,TX
910 AM WEST BPT ALONG GOLF BALL-SIZED HAIL
MAJOR ROAD REPORTED BY BEAUMONT
POLICE
915 PM HAMPSHIRE,TX POWERLINES AND STREET
18 MILES SSW BPT SIGNS DOWN. BPT DPS
JEFFERSON COUNTY
920 AM ORANGE COUNTY TREES DOWN COUNTY WIDE
ORANGE,TX ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF
945 AM PORT ARTHUR, TX POWERLINES/TREES DOWN
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON HWY 87. PORT ARTHUR PDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 57 min |
| May 8, 9:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Jefferson Davis | 63 min |
| May 8, 10:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 61 min |
| May 8, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 69 min |
| May 8, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 51 min |
| 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 |
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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.