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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 18, 1995Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 18, 1995, 5:40 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 20 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 18, 1995, 5:40 AM CST (11:40 UTC)
Expired
Dec 18, 1995, 6:00 AM CST
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Newton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1995-12-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1995-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 7:22 PM CSTTornado WarningLCHAcadia53 min
Dec 17, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron37 min
Dec 18, 12:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette3 hr
Dec 18, 1:35 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette2 hr
Dec 18, 3:28 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette4 hr
Dec 18, 3:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon42 min
Dec 18, 5:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon59 min
Dec 18, 7:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette4 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis3 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHRapides3 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette5 hr
Dec 18, 6:49 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHTyler41 min
Dec 18, 7:19 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHJasper41 min
Dec 18, 7:51 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHNewton39 min
Dec 18, 10:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHJefferson3 hr

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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.