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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 12:45 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 12:45 AM CST (06:45 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Newton County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 8, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 080646
TORLCH

TXC351-080730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1245 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1245 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WIERGATE BY 105 AM CST
  BURKEVILLE BY 110 AM CST

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3077 9381 3068 9370 3091 9356 3101 9374

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 1:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	59 min
Nov 8, 1:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper	40 min
Nov 8, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	44 min
Nov 8, 2:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	43 min
Nov 8, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	57 min
Nov 8, 11:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	67 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.