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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 9:08 PM CST for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1996, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1996, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 979 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 5, 8:34 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 8:34 PM CST, 34 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 5, 6:50 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
650 PM CST TUE MAR 05 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....PARISH LOCATION....
550 PM LEESVILLE LA .25 INCH HAIL RPTD BY
03/05/96 VERNON S.O...M AND M SIZE.
(PLAIN)Local storm report, Mar 5, 9:06 PM CST, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 54 min |
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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.