Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 8:23 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 1996, 8:23 AM CST (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1996, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:30 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lake Charles, LA | |
| Jan 26, 9:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lake Charles, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 Jan 26, 4:16 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 4:16 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 414 AM CST FRI JAN 26 1996 COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH SE OK INTO NE TX SHULD PASS THRU OUR AREA THIS EVG. UPPER LVL DYNAMICS STILL LOOK TO BE NORTH OF AREA BUT MSTR RETURN HAS BEEN BETTER THAN EXPECTED. KLCH/KPOE VWP'S SHOW PRETTY GOOD LOW LVL JET AND DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. MAY SEE A FEW SVR BEFORE THE SHOW IS OVER. 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 36 min |
| Jan 26, 9:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 53 min |
| Jan 26, 10:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 44 min |
| Jan 26, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 64 min |
| Jan 26, 12:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.