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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 28, 1995Evangeline Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 11:17 PM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1995, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Evangeline Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 3049 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 290418 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC097-003-039-115-290515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1117 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...ST. LANDRY PARISH
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ALLEN PARISH...EVANGELINE PARISH...VERNON PARISH
 
AT 1115 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING THE
NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF VERNON...ALLEN...EVANGELINE...AND
ST LANDRY PARISHES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	LaSalle	65 min
Jul 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant, Rapides	65 min
Jul 28, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	67 min
Jul 28, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Vernon	58 min
Jul 29, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	47 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	69 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	69 min
Jul 29, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.