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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 26, 2003Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2003, 10:17 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2003, 10:17 PM CST (04:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2003, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

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 26, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 270417
TORLCH
LAC011-115-270445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1017 PM CST WED NOV 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
  BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1013 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PITKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PITKIN BY 1045 PM 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.

LAT...LON 3088 9318 3081 9315 3092 9286 3110 9291

$$

ERICKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 7:32 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		58 min
Nov 26, 9:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
Nov 26, 10:11 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		64 min
Nov 26, 11:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	22 min
Nov 26, 11:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 26, 11:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 26, 11:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	36 min
Nov 27, 12:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 27, 12:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 27, 1:10 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 27, 2:40 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 27, 2:40 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 27, 4:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	66 min

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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.