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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 18, 1995Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 1995, 11:21 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 1995, 11:21 AM CST (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1995, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBPT 181721
TORBPT
TXC351-181800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1121 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTY
 
AT 1117 AM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
JUST WEST OF BURKEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABpANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
 
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 6:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Angelina, Jasper, San Augustine, Tyler	47 min
Jan 18, 7:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Angelina, San Augustine	61 min
Jan 18, 7:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Tyler	61 min
Jan 18, 7:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Angelina, Tyler	54 min
Jan 18, 8:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	60 min
Jan 18, 12:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	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.