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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 1:39 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Newton County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Deridder, LA | Dime-size hail and thunderstorm wind gusts which downed trees was reported in DeRidder. South of DeRidder a tornado touched down, damaging several house roofs and sheared off trees. Tornado path length and width estimated. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 181842 TORLCH LAC011-TXC351-181945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 139 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NEWTON COUNTY AT 1:39 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JUST NORTH OF KIRBYVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 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 0SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 64 min |
| May 18, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 63 min |
| May 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 63 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 49 min |
| May 18, 8:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 55 min |
| May 18, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 56 min |
| May 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 61 min |
| May 18, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 63 min |
| May 18, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.