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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 18, 2003Newton County, Texas; Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 18, 2003, 12:26 AM CST for Newton County, Texas; Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 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: Nov 18, 2003, 12:26 AM CST (06:26 UTC)
Expired: Nov 18, 2003, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Vernon Parish, LA, 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 17, 11:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 877 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 180626
TORLCH
LAC115-TXC351-180700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1225 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
  NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CST

* AT 1222 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BURKEVILLE... 
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVANS BY 1235 AM CST
  BURR FERRY BY 1240 AM CST
  LEESVILLE...NEW LLANO BY 1255 AM CST

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR A TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

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

LAT...LON 3106 9380 3089 9372 3107 9314 3128 9323

$$

LGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 17, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	65 min
Nov 17, 10:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	65 min
Nov 17, 10:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	4 hr
Nov 17, 11:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	36 min
Nov 17, 11:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	49 min
Nov 18, 12:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	34 min
Nov 18, 12:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	24 min
Nov 18, 12:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	28 min
Nov 18, 12:56 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		64 min
Nov 18, 1:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	35 min
Nov 18, 4:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	29 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.