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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1995, 3:19 PM CST for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1995, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1995, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 162122 COR TORLCH LAC113-162200- ...CORRECTION...REMOVE SABINE PASS TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY FROM WARNING BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 319 PM CST THU MAR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERMILION PARISH AT 310 PM CST STATE POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST SOUTHEAST OF INTRACOASTAL CITY OVER THE MARSH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. 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 16, 9:48 AM CST, 5 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ216-161645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 948 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995 ...TEST...TEST...TEST...TEST...TEST... TESTING SETUP ON SRWARN...WSO.BPT... ...END OF TEST... NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 10:08 AM CST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ201-161715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1008 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995 ...TEST...TEST...TEST... TESTING SETUP SRWARN...WSO BPT... END OF TEST... NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 59 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.