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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 27, 1995Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 11:50 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1995, 11:50 AM CST (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1995, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KLCH 271750 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC055-271845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1150 AM CST FRI JAN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...LAFAYETTE PARISH
 
AT 1147 AM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR FROM
JUST NORTH OF OPELOUSAS TO ABBEVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 9:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	62 min
Jan 27, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen	60 min
Jan 27, 10:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline	67 min
Jan 27, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	57 min
Jan 27, 4:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	59 min
Jan 27, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	68 min
Jan 27, 5:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	59 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.