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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 29, 1996Cameron Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1996, 8:20 PM CST for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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 29, 1996, 8:20 PM CST (02:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1996, 9:15 PM CST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Cameron Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 340 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-283 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 9:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline47 min
Mar 29, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Landry63 min
Mar 29, 10:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson Davis26 min
Mar 29, 10:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia49 min
Mar 29, 11:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette54 min
Mar 29, 11:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Martin52 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.