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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 9:12 AM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 1995, 9:12 AM CST (15:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 1995, 9:42 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 16, 8:55 PM CST, 12 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 8:55 PM CST, 12 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 850 PM CST SAT DEC 16 1995 NO BIG ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED TO CURRENT FCST. FOG IS AGAIN QUESTION OF THE NIGHT. APPEARS DENSE FOG ADVISORY MAY BE IN ORDER AGAIN...BUT WILL HOLD OFF. LOWS WILL NEED TO BE LOWERED IN CENTRAL LA. 8 TX ZONES... @1 TYLER JASPER NEWTON @2 HARDIN ORANGE JEFFERSON LA ZONES... @1 VERNON RAPIDES AVOYELLES BEAUREGARD ALLEN EVANGELINE ST LANDRY @2 CALCASIEU JEFFERSON DAVIS ACADIA LAFAYETTE UPPER ST MARTIN CAMERON VERMILION IBERIA LOWER ST MARTIN ST MARY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 17, 4:02 AM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-171400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 402 AM CST SUN DEC 17 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TODAY... A STATIONARY FRONT AND A VIGOUROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE FORCES ACROSS THE AREA TODAY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Dec 17, 4:06 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-171400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 402 AM CST SUN DEC 17 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TODAY... A STATIONARY FRONT AND A VIGOUROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE FORCES ACROSS THE AREA TODAY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Dec 17, 7:00 AM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
LAZ041>045-051>055-TXZ201-215-216-171400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 700 AM CST SUN DEC 17 1995 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE VISIBLITY HAS IMPROVED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOUSIANA THIS MORNING TO GREATER THAN 10 MILES. THEREFORE...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 12
Special weather statement, Dec 17, 7:01 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
LAZ041>045-051>055-TXZ201-215-216-171400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 700 AM CST SUN DEC 17 1995 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE VISIBLITY HAS IMPROVED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOUSIANA THIS MORNING TO GREATER THAN 10 MILES. THEREFORE...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 10:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 39 min |
| Dec 17, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 49 min |
| Dec 17, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 60 min |
| Dec 17, 1:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 54 min |
| Dec 17, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 48 min |
| Dec 17, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 41 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.