Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 6:43 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 6:43 AM CST (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Angelina County, TX, Jasper County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBPT 181243 RRA SVRBPT TXC005-405-241-457-181330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 643 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN ANGELINA COUNTY ...SOUTHERN SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...TYLER COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE APPROACHING THESE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR . FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JH & 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, Jan 18, 6:20 AM CST, 23 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-181415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 620 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... INCLUDING THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... UNTIL NOON TODAY... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...NORTH OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE...UNTIL NOON TODAY... AT 600 AM CST...AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRECHED FROM JUST EAST OF LONGVIEW...TO JASPER...TO LIVINGSTON...TO CONROE... TO NORTH AND WEST OF HOUSTON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING BETWEEN LIVINGSTON AND CONROE. THIS AREA OF STORMS AND SHOWERS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR AND WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT IN CENTRAL TEXAS. PERSONS IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING TORNADOES...STRONG WINDS... LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR UPDATES OR WARNINGS FOR SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. JH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 7:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Angelina, San Augustine | 61 min |
| Jan 18, 7:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Tyler | 61 min |
| Jan 18, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Angelina, Tyler | 54 min |
| Jan 18, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 60 min |
| Jan 18, 11:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 39 min |
| Jan 18, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 54 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.