Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 11:58 PM CST for Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 11:58 PM CST (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Evangeline Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 070559 RRA SVRLCH LAC079-039-070700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1158 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...RAPIDES PARISH ...EVANGELINE PARISH AT 1156 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ALEXANDRIA EXTENDING SOUTH TO EASTERN ALLEN PARISH. MOVEMENT OF STORMS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YO<UR 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, 8:48 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-070445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 848 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST OF GOLDEN TRIANGLE... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM TONIGHT FOR LAKES AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPING IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE CHARLES THIS EVENING AND MOVING NORTHWARD INTO THE FORT POLK AREA. REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LOUISIANA NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF LAKE CHARLES. THIS AREA HAS SHOWN A TREND TO DEVELOP SOUTHWESTWARD TOWARDS THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE DURING THE LAST HOUR. AT 830 PM THIS EVENING...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF ORANGE TO LAKE CHARLES AND NORTH TO FORT POLK AND CONTINUING NORTH INTO NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA. CONDITIONS FAVOR THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER JUST TO THE EAST OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDRIES PUSHED OUT TO THE SOUTHWEST FROM ANY STRONG STORMS NOW IN LOUISIANA COULD PRODUCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TRIANGLE LATER TONIGHT. PERSONS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS TONIGHT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM TONIGHT FOR ANGELINA...SAN AUGUSTINE...NACOGDOCHES...TYLER...HARDIN...JASPER...POLK...TRINITY... HOUSTON...AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. BANDS OF THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUE FROM AROUND BRENHAM TO PALISTINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERAL BANDS OF THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY THAT WILL BE INTISIFYING AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH TONIGHT. DCG NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 11:40 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TXZ215-216-070645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1140 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARDS GOLDEN TRIANGLE... AT 1130 PM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER GALVESTON AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR TOWARDS THE MID-COUNTY AREA. THE CLUSTER WAS DEVELOPING TO THE EAST TOWARDS SABINE PASS AND PORT ARTHUR AS WELL. THE STORM WAS INDICATED TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. REMAIN ALERT FOR UPCOMING STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DCG NNNN
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, 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 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.