Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 1:21 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1995, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 2017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 101822 RRA SVRLCH LAC023-101930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 121 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CAMERON PARISH AT 120 PM CDT..RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST OFFSHORE BETWEEN HIGH ISLAND TEXAS AND SABINE PASS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE MOVING ONSHORE INTO WEST CAMERON PARISH SHORTLY. 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, Apr 10, 12:38 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-102045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1238 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995 .....THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON SPREADING TO ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS EVENING..... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WITH STRONG UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WILL MOVE ACROSS TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON REACHING THE TEXAS COAST BY TUESDAY AROUND MIDDAY. THIS COLD FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALREADY IN PLACE OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM OVER EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON SPREADING TO ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS LATE TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH ARE EXPECTED WITH ISOLATED TOTALS APPROACHING 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. AT 1235 PM THIS AFTERNOON...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO WACO TO SAN ANTONIO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. LINHARES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 67 min |
| Apr 10, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 63 min |
| Apr 10, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 56 min |
| Apr 10, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 69 min |
| Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 69 min |
| Apr 10, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 47 min |
| Apr 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 60 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.