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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 11, 1995Grant Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 12:48 PM CDT for Grant Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle61 min
Jun 11, 5:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHTyler57 min
Jun 11, 6:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson, Orange64 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.