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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 2007, 4:23 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Nov 21, 2007, 4:23 PM CST (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2007, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 4:50 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Newton, TX | TREE REPORTED DOWN. |
| Nov 21, 5:25 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Kirbyville, TX | TREES REPORTED DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 212223 SVRLCH LAC011-TXC199-241-351-457-212330- /O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0113.071121T2223Z-071121T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 423 PM CST WED NOV 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KIRBYVILLE... CENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CALL... SOUTHEASTERN TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TOWN BLUFF...FRED... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 416 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF FRED...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CALL BY 430 PM CST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3085 9369 3049 9367 3050 9443 3085 9414 TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 272DEG 47KT 3063 9395 $$ K. KUYPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 56 min |
| Nov 21, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 62 min |
| Nov 21, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 37 min |
| Nov 21, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 58 min |
| Nov 21, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Rapides, Vernon | 59 min |
| Nov 21, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.