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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 10, 1995Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 2:27 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 1995, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 12:00Z on 1995-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2017 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1995-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 101926 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC011-102030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
227 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BEAUREGARD PARISH
 
AT 225 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
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.

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, 1 hour 49 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron69 min
Apr 10, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu67 min
Apr 10, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron56 min
Apr 10, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu60 min
Apr 10, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides69 min
Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron60 min
Apr 10, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard53 min
Apr 10, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion61 min
Apr 10, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen69 min
Apr 10, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette47 min
Apr 10, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard54 min
Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu61 min
Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon60 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.