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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 10, 1995Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 1995, 5:06 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 1995, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
54 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, 10.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2017 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2017 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron69 min
Apr 10, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu67 min
Apr 10, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard63 min
Apr 10, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron56 min
Apr 10, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu60 min
Apr 10, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides69 min
Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron60 min
Apr 10, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard53 min
Apr 10, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion61 min
Apr 10, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen69 min
Apr 10, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette47 min
Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu61 min
Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon60 min

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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.