Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 3, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:29 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Colmesneil, 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 3, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 032214 SVRLCH TXC241-457-032245- /O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0021.070503T2213Z-070503T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 513 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JASPER... NORTHERN TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...ROCKLAND...COLMESNEIL... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... COLMESNEIL BY 520 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3091 9461 3070 9450 3091 9394 3109 9417 $$ 06
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLCH 032251 SVSLCH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 551 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007 TXC241-457-032301- /O.EXP.KLCH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070503T2245Z/ JASPER TX-TYLER TX- 551 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN TYLER AND NORTHWESTERN JASPER COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 545 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3091 9461 3070 9450 3091 9394 3109 9417 $$ 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 42 min |
Nearby
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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.