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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 21, 1995Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 1995, 8:07 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 1995, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1354 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
1354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 220128 COR
TORLCH
LAC019-220145-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
807 PM CDT MON AUG 21 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

   ...CALCASIEU PARISH

AT 805 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON TUNA LANE IN LAKE CHARLES
MOVING TOWARDS NELSON AND LAKE STREETS.

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.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.



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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu63 min
Aug 21, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard52 min
Aug 22, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.