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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 1, 1996Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 1, 1996, 6:23 PM CST for Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 37 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
Jan 1, 1996, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
Expired
Jan 1, 1996, 7:00 PM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 917 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 020023 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC053-020100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
623 PM CST MON JAN 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH
 
AT 620 PM...NEXRAD RADAR IN LAKE CHARLES DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
10 MILES EAST OF LAKE CHARLES...MOVING TOWARD JEFF DAVIS PARISH. HAIL AS
LARGE AS A QUARTER WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF LAKE CHARLES.
THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF LACASSINE AND FENTON
BETWEEN 630 AND 700 PM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 1, 6:07 PM CST, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
607 PM CST MON JAN 01 1996

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

0600 PM    2 S LAKE CHARLES        LA     0.75 INCH HAIL
01/01/96   CALCASIEU
Local storm report, Jan 1, 6:10 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
607 PM CST MON JAN 01 1996

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

0600 PM    2 S LAKE CHARLES        LA     0.75 INCH HAIL
01/01/96   CALCASIEU

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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.