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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 31, 2008, 10:29 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2008, 10:29 AM CST (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 5:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 570 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 707 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 31, 10:09 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 10:09 AM CST, 20 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 619 AM CST THU JAN 31 2008 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-011230- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA TO CAMERON, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD- ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA- LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY- LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- 619 AM CST THU JAN 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FAIR WEATHER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BECOME REESTABLISHED FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH A GRADUAL WARMING OF TEMPERATURES. RAIN CHANCES RETURN SUNDAY AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY AT WHICH TIME OUR NEXT FRONTAL PASSAGE IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 31, 10:15 AM CST, 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 10:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 40 min |
| Jan 31, 10:54 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 66 min | |
| Jan 31, 11:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 85 min | |
| Jan 31, 12:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Jan 31, 12:57 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Jan 31, 1:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 2 hr | |
| Jan 31, 3:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 88 min | |
| Jan 31, 3:43 PM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 31, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.