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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 26, 2003Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2003, 11:08 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 22 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, 11:08 PM CST (05:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2003, 11:30 PM CST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rapides 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, 9:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 270508
TORLCH
LAC079-270530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1107 PM CST WED NOV 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CST

* AT 1102 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL RAPIDES PARISH 5 MILES     
  NORTHEAST OF UNION HILL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FOREST HILL BY 1115 PM CST
  WOODWORTH BY 1125 PM CST
  LECOMPTE BY 1130 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 3107 9273 3097 9269 3103 9222 3131 9231

$$

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, 10:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	28 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.