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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 1, 1995Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 8:33 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 1, 1995, 8:33 PM CST (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1995, 9:15 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Avoyelles Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 020235 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC009-020315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
833 PM CST WED NOV 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...AVOYELLES PARISH
 
AT 830 PM...LAKE CHARLES DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST WEST OF BUNKIE MOVING EAST AT 35 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
Nov 1, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline, Rapides63 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

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.