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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1996, 11:27 AM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 26, 1996, 11:27 AM CDT (16:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1996, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 261628 TORLCH LAC055-261715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1127 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...LAFAYETTE PARISH AT 1123 AM CROWLEY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 6 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE NEAR DUSON. RESIDENTS OF DUSON AND SCOTT SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS ...OR CUSHIONS TdO COVER YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 26, 9:27 AM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:27 AM CDT, 2 hours before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST/CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA...CORRECT SPELLING 910 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 1996 ETA MORNING RUN SHOWS CONTINUED SHEAR ZONE ACRS AREA THUS SUSPECT ROUND OF CHC RW`S AND TSTMS MOSTLY ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER ZONES OF LA/SE TX...WITH REMAINDER OF AREA SEEING SCATTERED PCPN. TEMPERATURES WERE A BIT TRICKY YESTERDAY IN RAIN AREAS...SUSPECT MOST AREAS WILL SEE MID 80S TO NEAR 90 BEFORE RAIN SETS IN. PREV FCST LOOKS GOOD...WILL BUMB POPS UP IN S TIER THOUGH DUE TO WET CONDITIONS AND GOOD SHEAR ZONE ALOFT. VIL OF DAY FOR AREA 60 TO 65...CAPES ARND 3500-3700 J/KG...WET BULB ZERO HIGHER THAN SEEN LATELY AT 14422 FEET...LIFTED INDEX -6 AND SWEAT INDEX RATHER HIGH ARND 216. SUSPECT HEAVY RAIN IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WITH PCPTL WATER AROUND 2.30 INCHES. 06 BPT 90/73/91 412 LCH 89/73/90 523 LFT 89/73/90 613 AEX 90/72/90 413
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.