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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:16 AM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 1:16 AM CST (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hardin County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 1:45 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Kountze, 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
Nov 8, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 080717
TORLCH

TXC199-080815-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 113 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KOUNTZE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HONEY ISLAND BY 125 AM CST
  KOUNTZE BY 130 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.

LAT...LON 3024 9464 3013 9451 3051 9409 3051 9452

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 12:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.