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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 11, 1995Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 2:21 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 2:21 AM CST (08:21 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 3:30 AM CST
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 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 00:00Z on 1995-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1945 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 00:00Z on 1995-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 252 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
1945 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.5
Supercell composite
17.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 110822 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC079-110930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
221 AM CST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...RAPIDES PARISH
 
AT 220 AM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS
RAPIDES PARISH. THE STORMS WILL REACH ALEXANDRIA BY 230 AM...AND EXIT
THE CITY BY 300 AM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 1:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon68 min
Nov 11, 2:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard43 min
Nov 11, 2:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen36 min
Nov 11, 2:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu35 min
Nov 11, 4:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette41 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.