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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 17, 1995Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 1995, 7:22 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 1995, 7:22 PM CST (01:22 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 1995, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 53 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 00:00Z, 1.4 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 180125
TORLCH
LAC001-180215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
722 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ACADIA PARISH
 
AT 7:21 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF
MERMENTAU MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN AND NEAR THE PATH OF
THIS STORM ARE EAGAN...CROWLEY...IOTA AND MAXIE.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDXING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Dec 16, 8:55 PM CST, 22 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 8:55 PM CST, 22 hours 27 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
850 PM CST SAT DEC 16 1995

NO BIG ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED TO CURRENT FCST. FOG IS AGAIN QUESTION OF
THE NIGHT. APPEARS DENSE FOG ADVISORY MAY BE IN ORDER AGAIN...BUT
WILL HOLD OFF. LOWS WILL NEED TO BE LOWERED IN CENTRAL LA.
8

TX ZONES...
@1 TYLER JASPER NEWTON
@2 HARDIN ORANGE JEFFERSON

LA ZONES...
@1 VERNON RAPIDES AVOYELLES BEAUREGARD ALLEN EVANGELINE ST LANDRY
@2 CALCASIEU JEFFERSON DAVIS ACADIA LAFAYETTE UPPER ST MARTIN CAMERON
   VERMILION IBERIA LOWER ST MARTIN ST MARY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 17, 2:29 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
229 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0109 PM    PINE PRAIRIE            LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   EVANGELINE                     TREE BLOWN DOWN ON HWY 106.

0140 PM    EFFIE                   LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   AVOYELLES                      1 ROOF BLOWN OFF RESIDENCE...
                                          1 BARN DESTROYED...SEVERAL
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
                                          NO INJURIES.

0140 PM    PALMETTO                LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   ST LANDRY                      TREES BLOWN DOWN ON HWY 360.

Local storm report, Dec 17, 2:30 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
229 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0109 PM    PINE PRAIRIE            LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   EVANGELINE                     TREE BLOWN DOWN ON HWY 106.

0140 PM    EFFIE                   LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   AVOYELLES                      1 ROOF BLOWN OFF RESIDENCE...
                                          1 BARN DESTROYED...SEVERAL
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
                                          NO INJURIES.

0140 PM    PALMETTO                LA     WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95   ST LANDRY                      TREES BLOWN DOWN ON HWY 360.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 10:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	37 min
Dec 18, 12:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	3 hr
Dec 18, 1:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	2 hr
Dec 18, 3:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	4 hr
Dec 18, 3:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	42 min
Dec 18, 5:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	59 min
Dec 18, 7:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	4 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides	3 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	5 hr

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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.