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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 29, 2006Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2006, 2:36 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 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, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2006, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rapides Parish, LA

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, 12:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 291936
TORLCH
LAC079-292015-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0004.060429T1936Z-060429T2015Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 232 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER HINESTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   GARDNER BY 245 PM CDT
   BOYCE BY 300 PM CDT
   ALEXANDRIA BY 310 PM CDT
   BALL AND PINEVILLE BY 315 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 3119 9282 3109 9275 3140 9228 3146 9231
      3139 9263 3142 9276

$$

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	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	14 hr
Apr 29, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	55 min
Apr 29, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		66 min
Apr 29, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	39 min
Apr 29, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min
Apr 29, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	31 min
Apr 29, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	27 min
Apr 29, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	31 min
Apr 29, 5:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	3 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.