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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 29, 1995Acadia Parish, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 12:21 AM CDT for Acadia Parish, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 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, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard47 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis69 min
Jul 29, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron, Vermilion69 min
Jul 29, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Newton58 min
Jul 29, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange55 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.