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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 26, 1996Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 8:39 AM CST for Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 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 26, 1996, 8:39 AM CST (14:39 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 1996, 9:15 AM CST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 12:00Z on 1996-01-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 732 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 12:00Z on 1996-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 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
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

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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 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 4:16 AM CST, 4 hours 23 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 8:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu37 min
Jan 26, 9:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis53 min
Jan 26, 10:31 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHAllen44 min
Jan 26, 3:41 PM CSTTornado WarningLCHVermilion64 min
Jan 26, 12:21 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHJefferson, Orange4 hr

Nearby

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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.