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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 6, 1995LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 6, 1995, 9:43 AM CST for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 6, 1995, 9:43 AM CST (15:43 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 1995, 10:15 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County LaSalle Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 482 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 590 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 061544
TORLCH
LAC059-061615-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
943 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...LA SALLE PARISH
 
AT 942 AM...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST WEST OF JENA.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS ANDF MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 6, 7:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	60 min
Jan 6, 7:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	27 min
Jan 6, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	67 min
Jan 6, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	63 min
Jan 6, 8:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant	57 min
Jan 6, 8:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	LaSalle, Rapides	65 min
Jan 6, 9:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	57 min
Jan 6, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant	59 min
Jan 6, 10:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	29 min
Jan 6, 11:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	50 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.