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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 10, 1993Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1993, 12:20 AM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1993, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1993, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jasper County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 2027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 10:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

TXZ046-048-100500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1100 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 241 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 1AM CDT.

AT 11PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR TOLEDO
BEND DAM TO WOODVILLE TO HOUSTON.  THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25
MPH.  HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 52 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE HOUSTON
AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR.
h
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT
HOUR.
DJ

NNNN

Special weather statement, May 9, 11:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

TXZ046-048-100500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1100 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 241 CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 1AM CDT.

AT 11PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR TOLEDO
BEND DAM TO WOODVILLE TO HOUSTON.  THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25
MPH.  HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 52 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE HOUSTON
AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT
HOUR.
DJ

NNNN

Special weather statement, May 9, 11:58 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	55 min
May 9, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	64 min

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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.