Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 7:40 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 7:40 AM CST (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 50 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 12:00Z, 1.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBPT 061340 RRA SVRBPT TXC351-061430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 740 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NEWTON COUNTY .....A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NEWTON COUNTY..... AT 734 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NEWTON COUNTY THIS MORNING. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR MAYFLOWER AND EXTENDED TO NEAR BEAUMONT AND INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 6O MPH..HEAVY RAINFALL..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS..TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NOW. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. LINHARES 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. 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 6, 4:13 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 413 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...FOG REDUCING VISIBILITIES ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... PATCHY DENSE FOG FORMING THROUGHOUT EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT VISIBILITIES TO BE AS LOW AS 1 MILE IN SOME OF THE LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE EXCERCISE CAUTION THIS MORNING...ROADS ARE WET FROM DRIZZLE CAUSING SLICK DRIVING CONDITIONS. REMEMBER TO USE YOUR LOW BEAMS...ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. IF VISIBILITIES ARE REDUCED FURTHER A DENSE FOG ADVISORY MAY BE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. EVANS NNNN
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 6:12 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 612 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...FOG LIFTING OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO LIFT THE DENSE FOG OVER SOUTHEA TEXAS INTO A UNIFORM LAYER OF LOW CLOUDS...WITH SURFACE VISIBILITIES INCREASING DRAMATICALLY AT JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT. A FEW AREAS OF PATCHY FOG EXIST IN THE LOWER LYING REGIONS...HOWEVER CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. EVANS NNNN
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 6:25 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-061330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 625 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... AT 600 AM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CANCELLED THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE LAKES AREA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. EVANS NNNN
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.