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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1997, 3:16 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 2, 1997, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 022016 RRA SVRLCH TXC457-022100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 316 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...TYLER COUNTY AT 312 PM CDT...LAKE CHARLES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WOODVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS WOODVILLE BY 330 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
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 Sep 2, 3:06 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:06 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 300 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 1997 SCTATTERED TSRA /SHRA ACROSS CWA THIS AFT BEING ENHANCED BY A WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVING BTWN UPPR HI AND LOW. CONVECTIVE TEMPS ALSO CONSIDERABLY LOWER WITH DEEPER LOW-LVL MSTR IN PLACE. ADAP CHARTS INDICATE SFC LI/S OF -8 TO -10 WITH A COOL POCKET AT 50H. THUS...WUD LIKE TO INTRODUCE SCT POPS THRU THE EVE ACROSS ALL OF CWA. THE REMAINDER OF THE FP WL SEE RE-AMPLIFICATION OF THE TROF ACROSS THE EASTERN U.S. WITH THE UPPER HI REMAINING HIGHLY AMPLIFIED ACROSS THE PLAINS. THIS WL SEND A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE RGN OVERNITE WED FOR THE CENTRAL LA /UPPER SE TX ZONES...AND ACROSS THE COASTAL ZONES ON THU MORNING. THE MAIN ENERGY WITH THIS SYSTEM REAMINS WELL NORTH AND EAST OF THE FA AS DOES THE COOLER AIR. HWVR...WITH SUFFICIENT FNTL FORCING EXPECTED...GOOD CHC POPS SEEM TO BE IN ORDER FOR WED NITE. ONE INHIBITING FACTOR MAY BE THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING WHICH SHUD DAMPEN THE SFC INSTABILITY. WL ALSO MAINTAIN WDLY SCT POPS ACROSS THE FA ON WED AFT WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN THE AMS FROM THIS AFT. SFC WINDS RMN NE THUR THE FP...BUT MAY BRIEFLY GO VARIABLE LATE WED AS THE FRONT APPROACHES AND AREA GETS IN A COL. WL STAY IN LINE WITH NGM MOS THROUGH THE THREE PERIODS...AND THEN DEVIATE ON THE WARMER SIDE ON THU. 5 BPT 73/93/73/92 2243 LCH 73/93/73/92 2243 LFT 74/92/74/93 AEX 69/91/69/88 2341
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.