Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 6:06 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 69 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, 0.1 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KLCH 070006 RRA SVRLCH LAC001-070115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 606 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...ACADIA PARISH AT 605 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROWLEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN 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.
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 6, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-062315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 415 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL LOUISIANA PARISHES GRANT LA SALLE RAPIDES AND IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ACADIA ALLEN CAMERON EVANGELINE JEFF DAVIS LAFAYETTE VERMILION AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION... AT 415 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF DEQUINCY...LAKE CHARLES...CAMERON LINE AND EXTENDED INTO THE GULF 50 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE ACTION SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 4:21 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>044-051>052-062315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 415 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL LOUISIANA PARISHES GRANT LA SALLE RAPIDES AND IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ACADIA ALLEN CAMERON EVANGELINE JEFF DAVIS LAFAYETTE VERMILION AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION... AT 415 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF DEQUINCY...LAKE CHARLES...CAMERON LINE AND EXTENDED INTO THE GULF 50 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE ACTION SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER SIGHTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 56 min |
| Mar 6, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 58 min |
| Mar 6, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, Rapides | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 10:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Grant, Rapides | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 56 min |
| Mar 6, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Rapides | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 38 min |
| Mar 7, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 6:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis, Rapides | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 8:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 61 min |
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.