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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 13, 1995Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 7:01 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1995, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1995, 7:50 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3110 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides57 min
Jul 13, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant41 min
Jul 13, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle61 min
Jul 14, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHOrange57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.