Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1995, 7:36 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1995, 7:36 PM CST (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1995, 8:45 PM 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, 1.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLCH 170209 RRA SVRLCH LAC079-170245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 736 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...RAPIDES PARISH AT 735 PM CST...LAKE CHARLES DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GLENMORA AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Feb 16, 6:39 PM CST, 57 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 639 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 635 PM...LAKE CHARLES DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH DE RIDDER IN BEAUREGARD PARISH AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BEAUREGARD...ALLEN...AND RAPIDES PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FROM NOW UNTIL 730 PM CST THIS THURSDAY EVENING.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 6:40 PM CST, 56 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-170130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 639 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 635 PM...LAKE CHARLES DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH DE RIDDER IN BEAUREGARD PARISH AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BEAUREGARD...ALLEN...AND RAPIDES PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FROM NOW UNTIL 730 PM CST THIS THURSDAY EVENING.
Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:55 PM CST, 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
655 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995
TIME LOCATION REPORT
650 PM CST ALEXANDRIA, MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
RAPIDES PARISH IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA BY
RAPIDES 911Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:55 PM CST, 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
655 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995
TIME LOCATION REPORT
650 PM CST ALEXANDRIA, MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
RAPIDES PARISH IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA BY
RAPIDES 911Special weather statement, Feb 16, 7:02 PM CST, 34 minutes before
TXZ201-181-182-180-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 702 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD HARDIN COUNTY... AT 655 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED ALONG A BAND FROM NEAR VOTAW TO JUST WEST OF HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCURRING NORTH OF LIBERTY. ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM BAYTOWN INTO BEAUREGARD PARISH. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER UPDATES. EVANS NNNN
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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.