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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 4:13 PM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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, 4:13 PM CST (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardin County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 232213
TORLCH
TXC199-232245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
411 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 445 PM CST

* AT 406 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES       
  NORTHWEST OF KOUNTZE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  8 MILES NORTH OF SILSBEE BY 430 PM

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

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 3040 9449 3030 9438 3051 9408 3051 9441

$$

ERICKSON

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, 3:33 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, 4:23 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.