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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 24, 2005, 8:28 AM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 24, 2005, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2005, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLCH 241331 TORLCH TXC241-351-457-241430- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0019.050924T1328Z-050924T1430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 828 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 930 AM CDT * AT 817 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES EXTENDING FROM NEAR WOODVILLE TO JASPER. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE EYE OF HURRICANE RITA...AND ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 MPH. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE... OR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3054 9450 3050 9376 3117 9353 3099 9462 $$
The 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 | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 62 min |
| Sep 24, 5:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 6:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 63 min |
| Sep 24, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 65 min |
| Sep 24, 9:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 2 hr |
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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.