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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 3, 2003Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2003, 5:43 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 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
Jun 3, 2003, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1238 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

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

025 
WUUS54 KLCH 032243
SVRLCH
LAC011-032345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
542 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RAGLEY IN SOUTH CENTRAL BEAUREGARD 
  PARISH...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WHICH COULD 
CAUSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

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

LAT...LON 3051 9310 3050 9330 3042 9332 3042 9316

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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.