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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 27, 1995Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:04 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2182 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
9.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 272305 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC079-280000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
604 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...RAPIDES PARISH
 
AT 602 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA
NEAR MELDER. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 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
Oct 27, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon49 min
Oct 27, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon53 min
Oct 27, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every 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.