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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 2, 1995Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 2, 1995, 5:19 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 2, 1995, 5:19 PM CST (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 1995, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Acadia Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 022320
TORLCH
LAC001-030015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
519 PM CST THU NOV 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ACADIA PARISH
 
RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF CROWLEY MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR
CROWLEY AND PUBLIC REPORTS ROARING NEAR IOTA.
 
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.
 D

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	63 min
Nov 1, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	42 min
Nov 2, 3:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Vermilion	60 min
Nov 2, 4:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	49 min
Nov 2, 6:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia	45 min
Nov 2, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	60 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.