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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 28, 1995LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1995, 7:14 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County LaSalle Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1174 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
1174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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 282323 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC059-290030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
621 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LA SALLE PARISH
 
AT 620 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE
WESTERN EDGE OF CATAHOULA LAKE IN RAPIDES PARISH. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE INTO SOUTHERN LA SALLE PARISH SHORTLY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
NEAR 10 MPH.  GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PINEVILLE
WITHIN THE LAST 20 MINUTES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE nWATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 
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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, 2 hours 19 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, 2 hours 19 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

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.