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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 29, 1996Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 10:03 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: May 29, 1996, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 10:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaumont, TX

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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 390 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 May 29, 9:55 AM CDT, 12 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 9:55 AM CDT, 12 hours 8 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
945 AM CDT WED MAY 29 1996

VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS IN REGION WITH LCH 12Z SNDG PRODUCING A
MODIFIED CAPE OF 5800 J/KG...LI -12...K-INDEX OF 42 AND PW OF
2.06 IN. SFC TRIGGER IS QSTNRY FNT FROM ACT-SHV-TUP LINE WITH
SWRD PROPAGATING OUTFLOW BNDRYS. KSHV 88D AND SFC ANALYSIS
SHOWING THESE BNDRYS PROPAGATING SW WITH CNVTN DVLPG NR
NACHITOCHES. WHETHER OR NOT THESE BNDRYS MAKE INTO THE SRN ZNS
IS OF SOME QUESTION AS UPPR LVL RDG BUILDS TDY. HWVR...A GOOD
BET FOR CNVTN ACROSS CNTRL ZNS. A QUICK PEAK AT THE NEW ETA
CONTINUES TO SHOW ITS PERSISTENCE WITH KEEPING THE FNT WELL NORTH
OF FA AS OPPOSED TO AVN/NGM SLNS.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	61 min
May 29, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	67 min
May 29, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	69 min
May 29, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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.