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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 24, 1996Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 1996, 3:28 PM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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: Nov 24, 1996, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 24, 3:45 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Wiergate, TX

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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 242132 RRA
TORLCH
TXC351-242200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
328 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...NEWTON COUNTY
 
AT 330 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURKEVILLE.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN hTHE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS
...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	50 min
Nov 24, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Tyler	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.