Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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 19, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 19, 2:55 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:55 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 253 PM CDT WED JUN 19 1996 ADAP CHARTS INDICATE BEST MSTR CONVERGENCE OVR S CEN LA WITH WDLY SCT TRW PRIMARILY EAST OF LFT. ORIGINALLY THOUGHT AREA WAS PRIMED FOR HVY RNFL TDY BUT SIMPLY NOT HAPPENING (THAT IS NOT YET...CB NW OF STATION). ENVIRONMENT MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH NON-EXISTANT CAP AND SFC LI/S OF -10. HWVR...DRY AIR AT 85H MAY BE STABILIZING LOW-LVLS AS A MODIFIED LCH SNDG INDICATED EARLIER...WITH CAPE OF 1900 J/KG AND LI -5. MDLS SUGGEST SOME INCR WITH MSTR AS 85H THETA-E RDG MOVES OVR FA THIS TNITE INTO THU. AT THE SAME TIME...SHEAR AXIS TO MOVE OVER FA TNITE WITH BEST SYNPOTIC-SCALE LIFT AT 06Z. 30H SPEED MAX WL RMN WEST OF FA AS IT DIVES INTO S TX IN 24H WITH UPPR LVL LOW DVLP OFF THE SW LA COAST. THIS KEEPS SRN LA UNDER PVA THRU MOST OF FP WITH S/W ENERGY MOVG INTO WRN GULF WATERS IN 48H. ALL INGREDIE NTS POINTING TO A WET FORECAST WITH CHC POPS THRU FP. 5 BPT 73/89/74/90 5423 AEX 70/89/72/92 5422 LCH 73/89/74/90 5523
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.