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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 24, 2005, 1:52 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana; Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2005, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 13 hr |
| Sep 23, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLCH 240719 CCA
TORLCH
LAC019-023-053-TXC245-361-240900-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0013.050924T0652Z-050924T0900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
152 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 400 AM CDT
* AT 155 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HURRICANE EYEWALL MOVING OVER
THE WARNING AREA.
* DESTRUCTIVE SUSTAINED WINDS OF 100 TO 120 MPH WILL SPREAD ACROSS
CAMERON...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISHES AND JEFFERSON...AND
ORANGE COUNTIES PRODUCING TORNADO-LIKE DAMAGE THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
TAKE COVER NOW TREAT THESE IMMINENT EXTREME WINDS AS IF A TORNADO
WAS APPROACHING. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO THE SAFE ROOM IN YOUR
SHELTER AND TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
THESE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WILL PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE SIMILAR TO A
TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND REMAIN IN YOUR SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE EYEWALL PASSES.
CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3024 9285 3035 9338 3024 9365 3018 9404
2976 9411 2970 9402 2979 9358 2980 9309
2963 9261
$$
06The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Vermilion | 32 min |
| Sep 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 23 min |
| Sep 23, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 37 min |
| Sep 24, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Vernon | 62 min |
| Sep 24, 5:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Vernon | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 32 min |
| Sep 24, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 6:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Rapides, Vernon | 63 min |
| Sep 24, 11:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 24, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 8:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 62 min |
| Sep 24, 9:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 2 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.