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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 26, 2006Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2006, 5:31 AM CDT for Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 26, 2006, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2006, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 5:55 AM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nw Gueydan, LA	VERMILION PARISH SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED CITIZEN NORTH OF WRIGHT WITNESSED AND HEARD TORNADO PASSING TO THE NORTHWEST.
Jul 26, 5:55 AM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nw Gueydan, LA	VERMILION PARISH SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED CITIZEN NORTH OF WRIGHT WITNESSED TORNADO PASSING TO THE NORTHWEST.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 261031
TORLCH
LAC023-113-261100-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0008.060726T1031Z-060726T1100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
531 AM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
  CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 528 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH 
  OF KLONDIKE...  MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   KLONDIKE AND GUEYDAN BY 540 AM 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

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 2989 9270 2987 9254 3006 9246 3012 9255
      3005 9271

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Flood Watch	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	36 hr
Jul 26, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	60 min
Jul 26, 9:09 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		36 min
Jul 26, 9:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	3 hr
Jul 26, 9:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	2 hr
Jul 26, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Jul 26, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		26 min
Jul 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Jul 26, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.