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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 5, 1995Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

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

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 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, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Landry69 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.