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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 2004Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 7:49 PM CST for Newton 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, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 26 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 240149
TORLCH
TXC351-240215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
747 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 815 PM CST

* AT 745 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST EAST OF  
  NEAR NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

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

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

LAT...LON 3091 9376 3079 9368 3089 9357 3102 9358

$$

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, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	36 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.