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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 18, 1995Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 182226 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC079-182315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
526 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...RAPIDES PARISH
 
AT 525 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF ALEXANDRIA. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 10 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 RA
INS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 18, 4:45 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
445 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0310 PM    5 W OF NEW IBERIA         LA   WIND DAMAGE
08/18/95   IBERIA                         SHERIFF OFFICE REPORT OF
                                          POWER LINES DOWN ON HWY 90

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 4:48 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
445 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0310 PM    5. W OF NEW IBERIA         LA   WIND DAMAGE
08/18/95   IBERIA                         SHERIFF OFFICE REPORT OF
                                          POWER LINES DOWN ON HWY 90

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia	40 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.