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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1995, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1995, 3:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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, 7.7 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
- 1692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 111946 TORLCH LAC113-112045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 244 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERMILION PARISH AT 240 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED SIGHTING TWO WATERSPOUTS OVER WHITE LAKE. LAKE CHARLES DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELPING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INTRACOASTAL CITY. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTEAST AT 30 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, May 11, 12:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-511-215-182-152-216-167-166-180-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1235 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... JEFFERSON...ORANGE...HARDIN...TYLER...JASPER...NEWTON...SABINE ...SAN AUGUSTINE...ANGELINA...AND NACOGDOCHES COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. AT 1230 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 45 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES IN THE GULF WATERS TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SABINE PASS TO GALVESTON BAY TO JUST SOUTH OF HOUSTON EXTENDING TO THE AUSTIN AREA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATGHER RADIO OR LOCAL WEATHER SOURCES FOR UPDATES OR POSJSIBLE WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. COLBY 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.