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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 13, 1995Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 3189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Vermilion	67 min
Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	65 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	64 min
Jul 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	57 min
Jul 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	68 min
Jul 13, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	59 min
Jul 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	57 min
Jul 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	59 min
Jul 13, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	44 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.