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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 29, 1995Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 12:51 AM CDT for Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 12:51 AM CDT (05:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 290552
SVRLCH
LAC023-113-290700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1251 AM CDT SAT JUL 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...CAMERON PARISH...VERMILION PARISH
 
AT 1250 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM DE QUINCEY IN CALCASIEU PARISH
TO NEAR ABBEVILLE IN VERMILION PARISH. 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, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard47 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Lafayette69 min
Jul 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis69 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.