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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 10:18 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: Nov 8, 2000, 10:18 AM CST (16:18 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

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, 6:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 081618
TORLCH

TXC351-081715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1018 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 1115 AM CST

* AT 1013 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEWTON BY 1035 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 NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

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, 1:16 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, 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.