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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 1, 1995Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 7:57 PM CST for Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 1, 1995, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1995, 9:00 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 1995-11-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 854 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-11-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 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
854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 8:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAvoyelles42 min
Nov 2, 3:15 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHAcadia, Vermilion60 min
Nov 2, 4:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette, Saint Martin49 min
Nov 2, 6:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHIberia45 min
Nov 2, 2:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen60 min
Nov 2, 5:19 PM CSTTornado WarningLCHAcadia56 min
Nov 2, 2:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson60 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.