Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1995, 6:36 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 1995, 6:36 PM CST (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1995, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 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 230037 TORLCH LAC001-039-230130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 636 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...ACADIA PARISH...EVANGELINE PARISH AT 635 PM...PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR BASILE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. t IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jan 22, 3:12 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 312 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 AT 305 PM...LAKE CHARLES RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES WEST OF PORT ARTHUR TEXAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES HOUR AND IT SHOULD BE MOVING INTO CAMERON AND CALCASIEU PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM CENTER HAS PLACED ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS ALREADY UNDER A TORNADO WATCH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...WIND DAMAGE...AND TORNADOES IN THE HOUSTON AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jan 22, 3:14 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027-028-030>032-041>044-051-052-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 312 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 AT 305 PM...LAKE CHARLES RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES WEST OF PORT ARTHUR TEXAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES HOUR AND IT SHOULD BE MOVING INTO CAMERON AND CALCASIEU PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM CENTER HAS PLACED ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS ALREADY UNDER A TORNADO WATCH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...WIND DAMAGE...AND TORNADOES IN THE HOUSTON AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.
Local storm report, Jan 22, 3:53 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
353 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995
TIME LOCATION REPORT
345 PM CST CALCASIEU VINTON CITY POLICE REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAILSpecial weather statement, Jan 22, 6:02 PM CST, 34 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-230200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 602 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 ....A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON...ORANGE ...HARDIN...TYLER...JASPER...NEWTON...ANGELINA...SABINE... SAN AUGUSTINE...AND NACOGDOCHES COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM TONIGHT. AT 555 PM CST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM PORT LAVACA TO GALVESTON BAY TO LAKE CHARLES. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE GULF WATERS FROM 70 MILES SOUTH OF PALACIOUS TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF HIGH ISLAND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CHAMBERS COUNTY NEAR GALVESTON BAY AND ALSO 80 MILES SOUTH OF HIGH ISLAND. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MPH. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ACOMMPANIED BY OCCAISONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING COVERED MUCH OF JEFFERSON...ORANGE...AND HARDIN COUNTIES. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. MC NNNN
Special weather statement, Jan 22, 6:22 PM CST, 14 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-230230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 625 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER VALID UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECASTING CENTER IN KANSAS CITY. AT 620 PM CST RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HOUSTON TO JASPER. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR FREEPORT AND EXTENDING SOUTHEASTWARD UP 80 MILE OFFSHORE OF HIGH ISLAND. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MPH. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS RESIDENTS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE CAN EXPECT MODERATE RAINFALL WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ACCOMPANIED BY OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. NORTH OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE LIGHT RAIN AND GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WITH FALLING TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED. BOATERS AND MARINERS WI6TH MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AS THIS SYSTEM CONTINUES PUSHING ACROSS THE UPPER TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... MC NNNN
Special weather statement, Jan 22, 6:25 PM CST, 11 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-230230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 625 PM CST SUN JAN 22 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER VALID UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECASTING CENTER IN KANSAS CITY. AT 620 PM CST RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HOUSTON TO JASPER. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR FREEPORT AND EXTENDING SOUTHEASTWARD UP 80 MILE OFFSHORE OF HIGH ISLAND. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MPH. OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS RESIDENTS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE CAN EXPECT MODERATE RAINFALL WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ACCOMPANIED BY OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. NORTH OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE LIGHT RAIN AND GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WITH FALLING TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED. BOATERS AND MARINERS WITH MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AS THIS SYSTEM CONTINUES PUSHING ACROSS THE UPPER TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... MC NNNN
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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.