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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 29, 1995Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 12:13 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3049 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
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 290513
SVRLCH
LAC011-290600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1213 AM CDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BEAUREGARD PARISH
 
AT 1210 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARD INDICATED A IINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD
PARISH NEAR DE RIDDER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT
30 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL: APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle65 min
Jul 28, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant, Rapides65 min
Jul 28, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAvoyelles67 min
Jul 28, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Vernon58 min
Jul 28, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline, Saint Landry58 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Lafayette69 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis69 min
Jul 29, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron, Vermilion69 min

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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.