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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 1, 1995Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 6:53 AM CST for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 1, 1995, 6:53 AM CST (12:53 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1995, 8:00 AM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 358 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 222 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu61 min
Nov 1, 7:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHNewton54 min
Nov 1, 7:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.