Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 8:43 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 8:43 PM CST (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 TTAA00 KLCH 070244 RRA SVRLCH LAC079-115-070345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 843 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...RAPIDES PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERNON PARISH AT 842 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF FORT POLK VERNON PARISH AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDRIA IN RAPIDES PARISH. MOVEMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, 4 hours 28 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, 4 hours 22 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, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 69 min |
| 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, 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.