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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 26, 1996Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 1996, 3:41 PM CST for Vermilion 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: Jan 26, 1996, 3:41 PM CST (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Vermilion Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 262141
TORLCH
LAC113-262245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
341 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...VERMILION PARISH
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO
AND VERMILION BAY
 
AT 340 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE. PECAN ISLAND AND INTRACOASTAL CITY
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 8:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	37 min
Jan 26, 8:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis	36 min
Jan 26, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	53 min
Jan 26, 10:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen	44 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.