Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 5:49 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1995, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 1 hour 47 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, 1 hour 47 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | LaSalle | 53 min |
| Jun 28, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.