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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 13, 1995Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1995, 11:26 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 1995, 11:26 AM CST (17:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1995, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 64 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, 5.4 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-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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 330 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 131730 COR
TORLCH
LAC011-019-023-131830-
 
...CORRECTION...LINE OVERPRINT IN TEXT BODY
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1126 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BEAUREGARD PARISH...CALCASIEU PARISH...CAMERON PARISH
 
SABINE PASS TO WHITE LAKE
WHITE LAKE TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY
 
AT 1120 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10
MILES NORTH OF ORANGE TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE TORNADO WAS NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH. OTHER POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY EXIST IN A LINE EXTENDINFROM THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO SABINE PASS.  MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS
AAT 35 MPH.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLEP.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 11:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	64 min
Mar 13, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	61 min
Mar 13, 12:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	68 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.