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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 5, 1995Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Landry Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3488 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 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
3488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 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 052006 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC097-052115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
306 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...ST. LANDRY PARISH
 
AT 305 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR OPELOUSAS.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 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 SH"OULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides66 min
Jul 5, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard56 min
Jul 5, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Evangeline60 min

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.