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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 2:41 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2000, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:24 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mauriceville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLCH 021943 TORLCH TXC361-022045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 241 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VIDOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSE CITY BY 255 PM CDT PINE FOREST...VIDOR BY 305 PM CDT MAURICEVILLE BY 320 PM CDT 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 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.