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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 28, 1995Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
46 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, 7.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3173 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 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 281947
SVRLCH
TXC199-282030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
244 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...HARDIN COUNTY
 
AT 243 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY NEAR
LUMBERTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Newton63 min
May 28, 2:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHJasper, Newton3 hr
May 28, 5:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jasper, Newton3 hr

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.