Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 3:22 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 13, 1996, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oberlin, LA | |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Creek, 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 303 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996 LUKS LIKE WE MAY FINALLY GET A DECENT RAIN ACROSS THE FA. WEAK S/W WITH ASSOCIATED PVA WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTH INTO THE FA TONIGHT AND ON FRIDAY. THIS COMBINED WITH THE ALREADY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AMS IN PLACE ACROSS THE FA WITH HELP TRIGGER THE RW/TRW ACTIVITY. WL LOOK FOR SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH P.W. VALUES ALREADY AROUND 2 INCHES AND A LARGE PLUME OF MOISTURE HEADING THIS WAY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. 10 LCH 75/89/73/89 4533 BPT 75/89/74/89 4533 AEX 71/87/72/90 5532 LFT 73/89/72/89 4533
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 52 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.