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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 8:42 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 14, 1996, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | (Esf)Esler Arpt Alxn, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1868 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 Apr 14, 7:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 7:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 723 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 SVR ACTIVITY IN JASPER COUNTY TX AND JUST N OF VERNON PARISH LA...88-D SHOWING VILS GTR THN 65. CAN INCRS POPS TNITE TO LIKELY FOR LFT AND AEX. LINEAR SE MOVEMENT ON LINE WAS 18KTS. MARBLE SIZE HAIL COMMON WITH THESE. 11
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 59 min |
| Apr 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.