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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 16, 1995Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1995, 2:16 PM CST for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 1995, 2:16 PM CST (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1995, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Vermilion Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 162017 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC113-162115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
216 PM CST THU MAR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...VERMILION PARISH
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
IN VERMILION PARISH NEAR PECAN ISLAND AND ANOTHER SOUTHWEST OF
ABBEVILLE. MOVEMENT IS NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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

Local storm report, Mar 16, 8:53 AM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR, TX
900 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995

ATTN: SELS A BPT

REPORTS FOR TUESDAY MAR 14 1995 ... DELAYED SURVEY

TIME CST      COUNTY            EVENT

403 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 6 TV WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                MARBLE SIZED HAIL FELL FOR OVER 15
                                MINUTES AND COVERED FIELD.

505 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 12 TV WEATHER SPOTTERS IN
                                HONEY ISLAND AND VILLAGE MILLS
                                REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

DCG

Local storm report, Mar 16, 8:55 AM CST, 5 hours 21 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR, TX
900 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995

ATTN: SELS A BPT

REPORTS FOR TUESDAY MAR 14 1995 ... DELAYED SURVEY

TIME CST      COUNTY            EVENT

403 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 6 TV WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                MARBLE SIZED HAIL FELL FOR OVER 15
                                MINUTES AND COVERED FIELD IN THICKET.

505 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 12 TV WEATHER SPOTTERS IN
                                HONEY ISLAND AND VILLAGE MILLS
                                REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

DCG

Local storm report, Mar 16, 9:00 AM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR, TX
900 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995

ATTN: SELS A BPT

REPORTS FOR TUESDAY MAR 14 1995 ... DELAYED SURVEY

TIME CST      COUNTY            EVENT

403 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 6 TV WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                MARBLE SIZED HAIL FELL FOR OVER 15
                                MINUTES AND COVERED FIELD.

505 PM        HARDIN            CHANNEL 12 TV WEATHER SPOTTERS IN
                                HONEY ISLAND AND VILLAGE MILLS
                                REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

DCG

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 9:48 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before

TXZ216-161645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
948 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995

...TEST...TEST...TEST...TEST...TEST...

TESTING SETUP ON SRWARN...WSO.BPT...

...END OF TEST...

NNNN

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 10:08 AM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes before

TXZ201-161715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1008 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995

...TEST...TEST...TEST...

TESTING SETUP SRWARN...WSO BPT...

END OF TEST...

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 3:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vermilion	41 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.