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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 12, 1995Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 6:18 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 1995, 6:18 AM CDT (11:18 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 1995, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Allen Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -398 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 121120
TORLCH
LAC003-121200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
618 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ALLEN PARISH
 
AT 615 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
NEAR GRANT IN NORTHWESTERN ALLEN PARISH. THE STORM WAS MHOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	64 min
May 12, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	56 min
May 12, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	46 min
May 12, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	60 min
May 12, 7:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	67 min
May 12, 9:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia	45 min
May 12, 10:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette	54 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.