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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 10, 1999Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1999, 10:47 AM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 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: May 10, 1999, 10:47 AM CDT (15:47 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1999, 11:35 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Evangeline Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 10, 8:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 101547 RRA
TORLCH
LAC039-101635-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1047 AM CDT MON MAY 10 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EVANGELINE PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1135 AM CDT

* AT 1045 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF VILLE PLATTE OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAMOU
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS REPORTED A
  POSSIBLE TOUCHDOWN IN SOUTHERN EVANGELINE NEAR BASILE.

* THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  MAMOU BY 1055 AM CDT
  VILLE PLATTE BY 1115 AM CD2T


IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

&

K.KUYPER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 10, 10:22 AM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 10:22 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1022 AM CDT MON MAY 10 1999

COORD WITH SPC...CAN EXPECT WATCH TO BE DROPPED BEHIND THE LINE OF
TSTMS. WILL UPDATE WRKLC1.

11

BPT   LCH
LFT   AEX

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 10:32 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1032 AM CDT MON MAY 10 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 AM    5 E WOODVILLE             TX   TORNADO
05/10/99   TYLER                          POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
                                          5 E WOODVILLE ON HWY 190.
                                          NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          EYEWITNESSES SAW DEBRIS
                                          FLYING IN THE AIR.

0755 AM    5 E KOUNTZE               TX   TORNADO
05/10/99   HARDIN                         TIN BUILDING DESTROYED,
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED
                                          BETWEEN KOUNTZE AND SILSBEE.

0800 AM    BEAUMONT                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/10/99   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWNED ACROSS BEAUMONT

0810 AM    BUNA                      TX   TORNADO
05/10/99   JASPER                         TORNADO TOUCHDOWN BETWEEN
                                          EVADALE AND BUNA. SEVERAL
                                          HOMES DAMAGED ALONG HWY 96.

0840 AM    BURKEVILLE                TX   TORNADO
05/10/99   NEWTON                         WINDOWS BLOWN OUTOF
                                          BUILDINGS AND TREES DOWNED
                                          IN BURKEVILE.

0830 AM    ORANGE                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/10/99   ORANGE                         TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED

ERICKSON

Special weather statement, May 10, 10:35 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

TXZ180>182-201-215-216-101600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1035 AM CDT MON MAY 10 1999

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELED...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND
INTO CENTRAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS WILL
PROGRESS EASTWARD THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NOON HOUR TAPERING OFF
TOWARDS THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LCH/DROUGHT.HTM

K. KUYPER

Special weather statement, May 10, 10:35 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

TXZ180>182-201-215-216-101600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1035 AM CDT MON MAY 10 1999

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELED...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND
INTO CENTRAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS WILL
PROGRESS EASTWARD THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NOON HOUR TAPERING OFF
TOWARDS THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LCH/DROUGHT.HTM

K. KUYPER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH		59 min
May 10, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	50 min
May 10, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	50 min
May 10, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	57 min
May 10, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	57 min
May 10, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon	48 min
May 10, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	48 min
May 10, 10:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	51 min
May 10, 11:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin	77 min
May 10, 11:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	77 min
May 10, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	60 min
May 10, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	47 min
May 10, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.