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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

September 23, 2005Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 23, 2005, 10:37 PM CDT for Jefferson Davis 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: Sep 23, 2005, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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
Sep 23, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	13 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 240337
TORLCH
LAC053-240400-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0009.050924T0337Z-050924T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1037 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1033 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES EAST OF
  JENNINGS...MOVING WEST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   JENNINGS BY 1045 PM CDT
   ROANOKE BY 1050 PM CDT
   WELSH BY 1055 PM CDT
   WOODLAWN...LACASSINE AND FENTON BY 1100 PM CDT

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TAKE COVER NOW

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

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 3016 9264 3025 9263 3041 9298 3021 9297

$$

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	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, 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, 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

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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.