Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 8:15 AM CST for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 8:15 AM CST (14:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 181415 RRA SVRBPT TXC241-457-181515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 815 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...TYLER COUNTY AT 810 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER MOST OF TYLER COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EASTWARD NEAR 55 MPH. THIS STORM WILL SOON AFFECT NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 1 hour 55 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, 6:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Angelina, Jasper, San Augustine, Tyler | 47 min |
| 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, 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.