Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 1995, 6:15 AM CST for Iberia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 1995, 6:15 AM CST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 1995, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iberia Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2004 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 2, 1:59 AM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
200 AM CST THU NOV 2 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0806 PM OAKDALE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 ALLEN PINE TREE DOWN ON
HIGHWAY 10.
0840 PM CHENEYVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 RAPIDES TREE DOWN ON TRAILER.
POWER LINES DOWN.
0850 PM TURKEY CREEK LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 EVANGELINE SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN.
POSSIBLE TORNADO.
0900 PM BUNKIE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 AVOYELLES TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.Local storm report, Nov 2, 2:00 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
200 AM CST THU NOV 2 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0806 PM OAKDALE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 ALLEN PINE TREE DOWN ON
HIGHWAY 10.
0840 PM CHENEYVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 RAPIDES TREE DOWN ON TRAILER.
POWER LINES DOWN.
0850 PM TURKEY CREEK LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 EVANGELINE SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN.
POSSIBLE TORNADO.
0900 PM BUNKIE LA WIND DAMAGE
11/01/95 AVOYELLES TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 63 min |
| Nov 1, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 42 min |
| Nov 2, 3:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Vermilion | 60 min |
| Nov 2, 4:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Martin | 49 min |
| Nov 2, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 60 min |
| Nov 2, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 56 min |
| Nov 2, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 60 min |
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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.