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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 6, 1995Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 7:18 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 6, 1995, 7:18 AM CST (13:18 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 1995, 7:45 AM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 482 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 590 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 061319 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC079-061345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
718 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...RAPIDES PARISH
 
AT 715 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST
SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES
AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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

Special weather statement, Jan 6, 4:13 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
413 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995

...FOG REDUCING VISIBILITIES ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

PATCHY DENSE FOG FORMING THROUGHOUT EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS
MORNING. MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT VISIBILITIES TO BE AS LOW AS 1 MILE IN
SOME OF THE LOW LYING AREAS.

PLEASE EXCERCISE CAUTION THIS MORNING...ROADS ARE WET FROM DRIZZLE
CAUSING SLICK DRIVING CONDITIONS. REMEMBER TO USE YOUR LOW BEAMS...ALLOW
EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.

IF VISIBILITIES ARE REDUCED FURTHER A DENSE FOG ADVISORY MAY BE ISSUED.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

EVANS

NNNN

Special weather statement, Jan 6, 6:12 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
612 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995

...FOG LIFTING OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO LIFT THE DENSE FOG OVER SOUTHEA
TEXAS INTO A UNIFORM LAYER OF LOW CLOUDS...WITH SURFACE VISIBILITIES
INCREASING DRAMATICALLY AT JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT.

A FEW AREAS OF PATCHY FOG EXIST IN THE LOWER LYING REGIONS...HOWEVER
CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.

EVANS

NNNN

Special weather statement, Jan 6, 6:25 AM CST, 53 minutes before

TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
625 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 600 AM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CANCELLED THE FLASH FLOOD
WATCH FOR THE LAKES AREA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

EVANS

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 6, 7:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	60 min
Jan 6, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	67 min
Jan 6, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	63 min
Jan 6, 8:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant	57 min
Jan 6, 8:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	LaSalle, Rapides	65 min
Jan 6, 9:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	57 min
Jan 6, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant	59 min
Jan 6, 9:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	LaSalle	32 min
Jan 6, 10:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	29 min
Jan 6, 11:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	50 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.