Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 1:44 PM CDT for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1599 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLCH 031846 RRA SVRLCH LAC059-031915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 144 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...LA SALLE PARISH AT 144 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN JUST SOUTHEAST OF OLLA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 7:14 PM CDT, 18 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 7:14 PM CDT, 18 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-030800- SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST, CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 715 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 NOT MUCH TO CHANGE OUR WEATHER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS GULF MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO THE AREA SETTING UP THE SEASONAL CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. LOOKING INTO OUR CRYSTAL BALL FOR TUESDAY AND BEYOND, WE NEED TO CAST OUR EYES TO THE BAY OF CAMPECHE AS A STRONG TROPICAL WAVE FINDS ITS WAY THERE. IF THE WAVE DOES INDEED MAKE IT THERE, WE NEED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SOME DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM. CHGHUR SHOWS ALL MODELS PLACING THE WAVE THERE EAfRLY TUESDAY. FROM THERE THE TRACKS LOOK LIKE A FUJITA DOWNBURST PATTERN. SEE YOU AFTER THE FOURTH. 00
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.