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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1996, 10:29 PM CDT for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 25, 1996, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Martin Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 10:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Breaux Bridge, 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 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 Oct 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 316 PM CST FRI OCT 25 1996 ETA SHOWS RIGHT REAR QUAD OF JETSTREAK OVR REGION WITH STG S/WV MOVG THRU THIS EVENING. VAD WINDS SHOW SOME SHEARING SO SVR A PSBLTY TNITE. MAIN WX PROBLEM WILL BE COPIOUS MSTR AND HVY RAINS. X-SECS HAVE STG UVV THRU DAYBREAK SAT. VIS STLT SHOWS GOOD CONVECTION OFF TX GULF COAST. AM CONCERNED WITH E CEN LA AS THETA AXIS OVERLAYS THAT AREA TNITE. TEMPS SHUD BE STEADY TNITE...PSBLY SLOLY RISING WITH WAA. WENT FOR HIR POPS ON SAT NITE DESPITE NVA DUE TO MDT TO STG INSTABILITY AND GOOD THETA AXIS. RDGG BUILDS OVR SE U.S. SO MAIN MSTR AREA WL GRADUALLY SHIFT W. 11 BPT 72/81/73/82 7453 LCH 70/82/72/82 7463 LFT 67/84/73/82 8553 AEX 67/82/71/84 8554
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 60 min |
| Oct 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 60 min |
| Oct 25, 11:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.