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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 25, 1995Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Acadia Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 260 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1172 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
1172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides62 min
Jun 25, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle32 min
Jun 25, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Jefferson Davis67 min
Jun 25, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson Davis68 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.