Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1995, 3:53 AM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1995, 3:53 AM CST (09:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1995, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Acadia Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 050954 RRA SVRLCH LAC001-051100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 353 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...ACADIA PARISH AT 348 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST WEST OF EVANGELINE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 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, Mar 5, 1:32 AM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-502-503-050835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 135 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MID MORNING SUNDAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 125 AM...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA...LAKE CHARLES...AND CAMERON LINE EXTENDING SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS....SOME SEVERE...WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE VICINITY OF A WARM FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. RESIDENCE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 1:35 AM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-502-503-050835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 135 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MID MORNING SUNDAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 125 AM...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA...LAKE CHARLES...AND CAMERON LINE EXTENDING SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS....SOME SEVERE...WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE VICINITY OF A WARM FRONT AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. RESIDENCE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 2:00 AM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-502-503-050835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 200 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MID MORNING SUNDAY FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 157 AM...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING CAMERON PARISH FROM THE LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE INTO CAMERON PARISH AROUND 230 AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING. PERSONS IN CAMERON PARISH SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME LARGE HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 2:51 AM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-051100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 251 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NEWTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 7 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING... ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LUFKIN AND THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA UNTIL 6 AM CST THIS SUNDAY MORNING... AT 240 AM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THIS AREA WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WERE OVER EXTREME EASTERN NEWTON COUNTY AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SEA RIM TO SABINE PASS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. IN ADDITION...DENSE FOG IS OCCURRING OVER THE LAKES AREA AND ANGELINA AND NACOGDOCHES COUNTIES...CREATING HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS UNTIL NEAR SUNRISE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCES FOR UPDATES OR WARNINGS AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. -JH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 64 min |
| Mar 5, 3:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant | 58 min |
| Mar 5, 4:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.