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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 29, 2005Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2005, 11:37 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 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 29, 2005, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 29, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 4 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: 1553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 300438
TORLCH
LAC019-300500-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0002.050530T0437Z-050530T0500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1137 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR 
  CARLYSS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PUBLIC REPORTS AND VISUALS FROM 
  THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE INDICATE A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH 
  THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   LAKE CHARLES BY 1142 PM
   HOLMWOOD BY 1155 PM CDT

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3017 9341 3006 9340 3005 9299 3021 9300

$$

LGE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KLCH 300452
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1150 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

LAC019-300500-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050530T0500Z/
CALCASIEU LA-
1150 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR CALCASIEU
PARISH...

AT 1145 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER 
THE CITY OF LAKE CHARLES..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  IOWA AND LEBLEU SETTLEMENT BY MIDNIGHT CDT

MULTIPLE REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS 
STORM...ALTHOUGH NO TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED AS OF YET. HOWEVER A 
TORNADO MAY FORM OUT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD AT ANY TIME...SEEK SHELTER 
IMMEDIATELY

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3017 9341 3006 9340 3012 9298 3034 9305

$$

LGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	32 min
May 29, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	64 min
May 29, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	37 min
May 29, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	61 min
May 30, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	30 min
May 30, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min

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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.