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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 10, 2006Jasper County, Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2006, 4:34 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2006, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 4:50 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Brookeland, TX
May 10, 4:58 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Brookeland, TX

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 10, 1:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 3074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 9.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 102134
TORLCH
TXC241-351-102230-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0005.060510T2134Z-060510T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
434 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  BROOKELAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   JASPER BY 500 PM CDT
   FARRSVILLE AND TOLEDO BEND DAM BY 505 PM CDT
   HOLLY SPRINGS BY 510 PM CDT
   JAMESTOWN...WIERGATE AND MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 515 PM CDT
   BURKEVILLE...ROGANVILLE AND MT. UNION BY 520 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

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH...BE READY 
FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...VIOLENT WIND...AS WELL AS THE TORNADO.

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

LAT...LON 3119 9355 3114 9396 3106 9428 3055 9401
      3060 9371 3084 9357

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KLCH 102157
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
456 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

TXC241-351-102230-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060510T2230Z/
NEWTON TX-JASPER TX-
456 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR JASPER AND NEWTON
COUNTIES...

AT 448 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
BROOKELAND..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT 450 PM CDT...PENNY SIZED 
HAIL WAS REPORTED AT BROOKLAND TEXAS.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FARRSVILLE BY 510 PM CDT
  JAMESTOWN...HOLLY SPRINGS AND 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WIERGATE BY 515
  PM CDT
  NEWTON BY 525 PM CDT
  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BON WEIR BY 530 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3119 9355 3114 9396 3106 9428 3055 9401
      3060 9371 3084 9357

$$

DML

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	58 min
May 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	45 min
May 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	49 min
May 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	45 min
May 10, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	56 min
May 10, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.