Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2006

Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 29, 2006Hardin County, Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2006, 11:15 AM CDT for Hardin County, Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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: Apr 29, 2006, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2006, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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
Apr 29, 6:04 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 470 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 8.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 291615
TORLCH
TXC199-241-291645-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0003.060429T1615Z-060429T1645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1115 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT

* AT 1113 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SILSBEE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   BUNA BY 1130 AM CDT
   KIRBYVILLE BY 1145 AM 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 3041 9430 3028 9415 3038 9390 3075 9388
      3065 9399 3053 9407 3050 9419

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KLCH 291635
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1134 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

TXC199-291644-
/O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060429T1645Z/
HARDIN TX-
1134 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HARDIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED INTO 
JASPER COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3048 9407 3046 9408 3046 9389 3076 9388
      3068 9401 3056 9407 3052 9406

$$

TXC241-291645-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060429T1645Z/
JASPER TX-
1134 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 AM CDT FOR JASPER COUNTY...

AT 1129 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
KIRBYVILLE..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KIRBYVILLE BY 1145 AM CDT

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

THIS STORM EARLIER BLEW DOWN TREES IN HARDIN COUNTY NEAR SILSBEE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3048 9407 3046 9408 3046 9389 3076 9388
      3068 9401 3056 9407 3052 9406

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 5:29 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	14 hr
Apr 29, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	57 min
Apr 29, 7:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	49 min
Apr 29, 8:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	63 min
Apr 29, 10:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	39 min
Apr 29, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	24 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2006 Every tornado warning in 2006 Tornadoes in 2006

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.