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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1997, 9:11 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Apr 25, 1997, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | West Orange, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 631 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 260213 RRA SVRLCH TXC361-260315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 911 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...ORANGE COUNTY AT 910 AM...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF BRIDGE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN BRIDGE CITY AND ORANGE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 745 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997 SPC JUST ISSUED SVR TSTM WATCH FOR LCH CWA...AND NEW WILL BE ISSUIN6G FFA FOR LCH CWA THIS EVENING. MAIN THREAT SEEMS TO BE HEAVY RAIN RIGHT NOW...WITH A FEW PULSE SVR TSTMS DROPPING A LOT OF LIGHTNING AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. 15
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 25, 4:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
440 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
435 PM LUMBERRTON TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/97 HARDIN REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPTLocal storm report, Apr 25, 5:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
520 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM SULPHUR LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/97 CALCASIEU REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERLocal storm report, Apr 25, 5:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
520 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 ^PM SULPHUR LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/97 CALCASIEU REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERLocal storm report, Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
540 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
535 PM 4 E DEQUINCY LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/97 BEAUREGARD REPORTED BY CHANNEL 7 OBSERVERLocal storm report, Apr 25, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
540 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
535 PM 4 E DEQUINCY LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/97 BEAUREGARD REPORTED BY CHANNEL 7 OBSERVERLocal storm report, Apr 25, 8:54 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
854 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
850 PM MORSE LA WIND DAMAGE
04/25/97 ACADIA REPORTED BY SHERIFFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.