Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 3:20 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1995, 3:20 PM CST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1995, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBPT 272120 RRA SVRBPT TXC241-351-272215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 320 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY AT 320 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST JASPER COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF JASPER. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES PER HOUR...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OVER NORTHERN JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES AND SAM RAYBURN AND TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIRS. THIS STORM WAS HEADING EAST AT 40 MILES PER 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. JH NNNN
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
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 1:37 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
LAZ043-031-030-041-051-032-042-044-052-027-020-022-028-272040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 137 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM FOR CALCASIEU CAMERON JEFF DAVIS PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS EVENING FOR VERMILION AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 130 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EAST OF LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR HACKBERRY IN NORTHERN CAMERON PARISH. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH TO BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AS ANOTHER ROUND OF POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPIMNG ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 1:38 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
LAZ043-031-030-041-051-032-042-044-052-027-020-022-028-272040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 137 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM FOR CALCASIEU CAMERON JEFF DAVIS PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS EVENING FOR VERMILION AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 130 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EAST OF LAKE CHARLES EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR HACKBERRY IN NORTHERN CAMERON PARISH. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT ANOTHER TORNADO WXATCH TO BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AS ANOTHER ROUND OF POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPIMNG ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 2:45 PM CST, 35 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR BEAUREGARD CALCASIEU JEFF DAVIS CAMERON ALLEN EVANGELINE ACADIA AND VERNON PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA RAPIDES LA SALLE AND GRANT PARISHES... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS EVENING FOR LAFAYETTE VERMILION PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM FOR BEAUREGARD PARISH... AT 245 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN ACADIA PARISH NORTHWEST OF CROWLEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LAKE CHARLES AND IN EAST TEXAS NEAR WOODVILLE EXTENDING NORTH TO SAN AUGUSTINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. CONDITIONS STILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 2:46 PM CST, 34 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR BEAUREGARD CALCASIEU JEFF DAVIS CAMERON ALLEN EVANGELINE ACADIA AND VERNON PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA RAPIDES LA SALLE AND GRANT PARISHES... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS EVENING FOR LAFAYETTE VERMILION PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM FOR BEAUREGARD PARISH... AT 245 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN ACADIA PARISH NORTHWEST OF CROWLEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LAKE CHARLES AND IN EAST TEXAS NEAR WOODVILLE EXTENDING NORTH TO SAN AUGUSTINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. CONDITIONS STILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 3:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 4 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.