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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 14, 1995Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1995, 5:49 AM CST for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 1995, 5:49 AM CST (11:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1995, 6:45 AM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Evangeline Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KLCH 141149 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC039-141245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
549 AM CST TUE MAR 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...EVANGELINE PARISH
 
AT 548 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST SOUTHWEST
OF VILLE PLATTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 11:09 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHVermilion5 hr
Mar 14, 3:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHVermilion2 hr
Mar 14, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard49 min
Mar 14, 5:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard43 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.