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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1995, 10:29 PM CST for Grant Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 10:29 PM CST (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 070430 TORLCH LAC043-079-070530- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1029 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...GRANT PARISH...RAPIDES PARISH AT 1028 PM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA ALONG THE RAPIDES PARISH LINE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Mar 6, 8:48 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-070445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 848 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST OF GOLDEN TRIANGLE... ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM TONIGHT FOR LAKES AREA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPING IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE CHARLES THIS EVENING AND MOVING NORTHWARD INTO THE FORT POLK AREA. REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LOUISIANA NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF LAKE CHARLES. THIS AREA HAS SHOWN A TREND TO DEVELOP SOUTHWESTWARD TOWARDS THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE DURING THE LAST HOUR. AT 830 PM THIS EVENING...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF ORANGE TO LAKE CHARLES AND NORTH TO FORT POLK AND CONTINUING NORTH INTO NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA. CONDITIONS FAVOR THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER JUST TO THE EAST OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDRIES PUSHED OUT TO THE SOUTHWEST FROM ANY STRONG STORMS NOW IN LOUISIANA COULD PRODUCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TRIANGLE LATER TONIGHT. PERSONS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS TONIGHT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM TONIGHT FOR ANGELINA...SAN AUGUSTINE...NACOGDOCHES...TYLER...HARDIN...JASPER...POLK...TRINITY... HOUSTON...AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. BANDS OF THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUE FROM AROUND BRENHAM TO PALISTINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERAL BANDS OF THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY THAT WILL BE INTISIFYING AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH TONIGHT. DCG NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 56 min |
| Mar 6, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 58 min |
| Mar 6, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 62 min |
| Mar 6, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, Rapides | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 56 min |
| Mar 6, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Rapides | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
| Mar 7, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 38 min |
| Mar 7, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 6:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis, Rapides | 68 min |
| Mar 7, 8:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 61 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.