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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 12, 1995Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1995, 5:41 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 5:41 AM CDT (10:41 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 102 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 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-398 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 6:18 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHAllen42 min
May 12, 6:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard56 min
May 12, 7:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline46 min
May 12, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard60 min
May 12, 7:53 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu67 min
May 12, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia45 min
May 12, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette54 min
May 11, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper57 min

Nearby

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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.