Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 36, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 12, 1995Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 7:53 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 7:53 AM CDT (12:53 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 19 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 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2320 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 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.8
Supercell composite
16.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 121157 COR
TORLCH
LAC019-121400-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
753 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A...CORRECTED TIME
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

   ...CALCASIEU PARISH

AT 750 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKEL CHARLES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 5:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard64 min
May 12, 6:18 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHAllen42 min
May 12, 6:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard56 min
May 12, 7:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline46 min
May 12, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard60 min
May 12, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia45 min
May 12, 10:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette54 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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.