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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2004, 2:32 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- May 13, 2004, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
034 WFUS54 KLCH 131932 TORLCH TXC241-132000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 231 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BUNA... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BUNA BY 230 PM CDT KIRBYVILLE BY 300 PM CDT 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 600 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3055 9402 3040 9401 3038 9389 3068 9388 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 28 min |
| May 13, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 59 min |
| May 13, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 62 min |
| May 13, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 54 min |
| May 13, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 52 min |
| May 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 4 hr |
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.