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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 19, 2005Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2005, 6:32 PM CST for Rapides 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: Mar 19, 2005, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2005, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.4
Supercell composite: -3.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 200033
SVRLCH
LAC079-200130-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0013.050320T0032Z-050320T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
632 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 624 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNION
  HILL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   UNION HILL BY 655 PM CST
   GLENMORA BY 705 PM CST
   MCNARY BY 710 PM CST
   CALCASIEU AND HINESTON BY 715 PM CST
   MELDER...ELMER AND FOREST HILL BY 725 PM CST
   WOODWORTH BY 730 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 3091 9281 3093 9251 3123 9246 3124 9279

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KLCH 200113
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
712 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005

LAC079-200122-
/O.CAN.KLCH.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050320T0130Z/
RAPIDES LA-
712 PM CST SAT MAR 19 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RAPIDES PARISH IS 
CANCELLED...THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE.

LAT...LON 3091 9281 3093 9251 3123 9246 3124 9279

$$

WILEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	60 min
Mar 19, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	60 min
Mar 19, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	29 min
Mar 19, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	47 min
Mar 20, 1:00 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Mar 20, 1:54 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		66 min
Mar 20, 2:53 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min
Mar 20, 3:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	58 min
Mar 20, 3:55 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 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.