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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2002, 11:18 PM CST for Jefferson 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2002, 11:18 PM CST (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2002, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
408 WUUS54 KLCH 290518 SVRLCH TXC245-290615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1118 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CST * AT 1112 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF BEAUMONT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BEAUMONT BY 1125 PM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3011 9433 3002 9434 2999 9407 3013 9412
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 28, 8:40 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 8:40 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
840 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002
...HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL...
STRONG SUPPORT FOR TSTMS TONIGHT AS INDC IN WATER VAPOR AND IR SAT.
BEST SUPPORT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA OVR THE NEXT SVRL
HOURS. CAPES AREA LOOKING A BIT BETTER AND HELICITY IS RUNNING ABOUT
82 (M/S)2... BUT THIS IS EXPECTED TO INCR. SHV SOUNDING HAD HEL ABT
183 (M/S)2. TOR WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF SE TX AND PORTIONS
OF SW AND CNTRL LA THIS EVE.
HAVE UPDATED ZONES.
.LCH...
TORNADO WATCH TIL 2 AM...LAZ027>033-041>043-051-052-
TXZ180>182-201-215-216-
FLOOD WATCH...LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-
TXZ180>182-201-215-216.
.PRELIM NUMBERS...
TN TUE WED THU TN TU WE TH
AEX 65 77/60 76/55 70/49 8 52 11 00
BPT 70 79/66 80/60 73/52 + 62 11 00
LCH 70 79/65 80/60 73/52 + 62 11 00
LFT 71 78/66 79/62 73/52 8 63 11 00
K. KUYPERHazardous weather outlook, Oct 28, 5:17 AM CST, 18 hours 1 minute before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-291200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 517 AM CST MON OCT 28 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CENTRAL... SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. ...FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... .TODAY AND TONIGHT... SYNOPSIS... FOR TODAY...A WARM FRONT WILL EXTEND SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE LAKES REGION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THROUGH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. FRESHENING GULF BREEZES WILL UPGLIDE OVER THIS FRONTAL SURFACE. BY THE AFTERNOON...DISTURBANCES ALOFT WILL PASS OVER THE UPGLIDING GULF AIR. FURTHER LIFTING OF THIS GULF AIR WILL CAUSE OVERRUNNING RAINS. ANY RAIN WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF IN THE ALREADY SATURATED SOILS. FOR TONIGHT...THE WARM FRONT WILL EXIT TO THE NORTH. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SET UP A WARM SECTOR WEDGE ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WILL BE IN PLACE OVER THIS WARM SECTOR WEDGE. THUNDERSTORMS ORGANIZING IN LINES ARE POSSIBLE. FLOODING... BASIN AVERAGED RAIN WATER AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE. SEE FLASH FLOOD WATCH ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. RIVER FLOODING... MODERATE FLOODING WILL PERSIST OVER THE RIVER BASINS OF THE LOWER NECHES AND LOWER SABINE...AND OVER THE RIVER BASINS OF THE CALCASIEU AND MERMENTAU. SEE RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. SPECIAL ATTENTION WILL BE NEEDED FOR FLASHY RIVERS SUCH AS BAYOU ANACOCO AND THE VERMILION RIVER IN LAFAYETTE. CONVECTIVE WEATHER... THUNDERSTORMS ORGANIZING IN LINES ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING. ................................................................ .TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... POST FRONTAL SHOWERS WILL BE ENDING TUESDAY MORNING. A CANADIAN HIGH WILL BUILD IN BEHIND THE EXITING FRONT. A MORE SEASONABLE AIR MASS WILL PREVAIL. ON SUNDAY...A MUCH STRONGER COLD FRONT WILL ADVANCE ACROSS THE AREA...USHERING IN AN UNSEASONABLY COOL AIR MASS. OVERNIGHT MINIMUMS IN THE MID 30S WILL BE FELT ACROSS THE LAKES REGION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. Trares
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 28, 11:04 PM CST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
1104 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM BATSON TX 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/28/02 HARDIN TREES REPORTED DOWN
KGKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 10:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 54 min |
| Oct 28, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 64 min |
| Oct 28, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Orange | 58 min |
| Oct 28, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 29 min |
| Oct 29, 12:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 12:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Oct 29, 12:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 3 hr |
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.