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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 1, 1996Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 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
Jun 1, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1312 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
1312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.