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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 6:04 PM CST for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX

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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 691 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 8.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 240004
TORLCH
TXC241-457-240030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 557 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  TOWN BLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 610 PM CST
  JASPER BY 620 PM CST
  HOLLY SPRINGS BY 630 PM CST

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.

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

LAT...LON 3075 9423 3066 9413 3084 9389 3109 9392

$$

ERICKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	36 min
Nov 23, 7:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	26 min
Nov 23, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Tyler	62 min
Nov 23, 10:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper	64 min
Nov 23, 10:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	61 min
Nov 23, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	56 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.