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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 3:28 PM CST for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 23, 2004, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 23, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 232128
TORLCH
TXC457-232215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
327 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 326 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  WOODVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TOWN BLUFF BY 335 PM CST

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TAKE COVER NOW

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH...BE READY
FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...VIOLENT WIND...AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

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

LAT...LON 3075 9450 3065 9433 3078 9416 3089 9422
      3101 9425 3102 9438

$$

ITO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 3:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	27 min
Nov 23, 3:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	42 min
Nov 23, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper	45 min
Nov 23, 3:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	31 min
Nov 23, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	32 min
Nov 23, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	22 min
Nov 23, 4:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	36 min
Nov 23, 4:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	32 min
Nov 23, 5:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	10 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.