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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 18, 1995Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 4:27 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1596 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
1596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
9.5

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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
May 18, 1:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard66 min
May 18, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHAllen64 min
May 18, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHEvangeline63 min
May 18, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHAvoyelles64 min
May 18, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard63 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson Davis49 min
May 18, 8:35 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHHardin55 min
May 18, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson56 min
May 18, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHNewton61 min
May 18, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHNewton57 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.