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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 28, 1995Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 4:26 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1995, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 1995-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3175 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
3175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:02 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTION FOR DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
402 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

DATE/TIME            LOCATION                    REPORT

28/300-315 PM CDT     PARKS                   2 TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                   UPPER ST. MARTIN          REPORT BY SHERIFF OFFICE.

28/300-315 PM CDT     BREAUX BRIDGE           A FEW TREES DONWNED. S.O.
                   UPPER ST. MARTIN          FROM BREAUX BRIDGE PD.
Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:02 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTION FOR DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
402 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

DATE/TIME            LOCATION                    REPORT

28/300-315 PM CDT     PARKS                   2 TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                   UPPER ST. MARTIN          REPORT BY SHERIFF OFFICE.

28/300-315 PM CDT     BREAUX BRIDGE           A FEW TREES DONWNED. S.O.
                   UPPER ST. MARTIN          FROM BREAUX BRIDGE PD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides56 min
Jun 28, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle53 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.