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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 6:09 PM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Newton 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 240009
TORLCH
TXC351-240045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 607 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN BY 615 PM CST
  BURKEVILLE 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 3101 9387 3081 9385 3097 9358 3118 9366

$$

ERICKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 6:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	26 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.