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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 13, 1995Jasper County, Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 5:18 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1995, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1995-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3189 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis59 min
Jul 13, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Vermilion67 min
Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard65 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon64 min
Jul 13, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Jefferson Davis57 min
Jul 13, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Tyler68 min
Jul 13, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson59 min
Jul 13, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin59 min
Jul 13, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHNewton44 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.