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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 11, 1995LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County LaSalle Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 111813 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC059-111915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
114 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...LA SALLE PARISH
 
AT 112 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
EAST OF POLLOCK.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant, Rapides	57 min

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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.