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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 15, 2005Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 2005, 3:47 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 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 15, 2005, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beauregard Parish, LA

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 15, 12:09 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 1622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 152147
SVRLCH
LAC011-152245-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0113.051115T2147Z-051115T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
347 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 343 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  MERRYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   SINGER BY 355 PM CST
   DERIDDER BY 405 PM CST
   LONGVILLE BY 415 PM CST
   BUNDICK LAKE BY 430 PM CST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

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

LAT...LON 3085 9353 3059 9364 3059 9320 3087 9299

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 9:45 PM CST	Marine Weather Statement	LCH		35 hr
Nov 15, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	60 min
Nov 15, 3:04 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	21 hr
Nov 15, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	55 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.