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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 3:33 PM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardin County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 232133
TORLCH
TXC199-232215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 329 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAH TO DATE  133                       208    -75       90       
  SINCE SEP 1    145                       308   -163      132       
  SINCE JUL 1    145                       308   -163      132       
                                                                     
 COOLING                                                             
  TODAY            5                         0      5        0       
  MONTH TO DATE   47                        17     30       63       
  SINCE SEP 1    534                       400    134      455       
  SINCE JAN 1   2534                      2110    424     2209       
..................................................................

WIND (MPH)                                                           
  HIGHEST WIND SPEED    13   HIGHEST WIND DIRECTION    SW (210)      
  HIGHEST GUST SPEED    17   HIGHEST GUST DIRECTION    SW (230)      
  AVERAGE WIND SPEED     3.8                                         
                                                                     
SKY COVER                                                            
  POSSIBLE SUNSHINE  MM                                              
  AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.8                                              
                                                                     
WEATHER CONDITIONS                                                  
 THE FOLLOWING WEATHER WAS RECORDED TODAY.                            
  FOG                                                                
  HAZE                                                               
                                                                     
RELATIVE HUMIDITY (PERCENT)                                          
 HIGHEST    93                                                       
 LOWEST     69                                                       
 AVERAGE    81                                                       
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THE MACON CLIMATE NORMALS FOR TOMORROW
                         NORMAL    RECORD    YEAR                    
 MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE (F)   65        82      1967                    
 MINIMUM TEMPERATURE (F)   41        19      1950                    
                                                                     
SUNRISE AND SUNSET                                                   
NOVEMBER 23 2004......SUNRISE   712 AM EST   SUNSET   530 PM EST   
NOVEMBER 24 2004......SUNRISE   713 AM EST   SUNSET   530 PM EST   
                                                                    
-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.                                      
R  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.                                
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.                                       
T  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.                                          


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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, 3:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	47 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.