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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 2:27 PM CDT for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 17, 2010, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2010, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2829 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 May 17, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 459 AM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 GMZ435-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-181100- VERMILION BAY-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- 459 AM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 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 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO RE-FIRE UP LATER TODAY...AS A COLD FRONT ADVANCES INTO NORTHERN LOUISIANA. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE...THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER SHOWERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ430-432-450-452-455-470-472-475-181100- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE- 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- 459 AM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PREDOMINATING WAVES WILL BE LONG-PERIOD SOUTHERLY SWELLS. THE ACTUAL TIDES WILL BE RUNNING ABOUT A FOOT ABOVE TIDE TABLE VALUES. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 11:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 130 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 TXZ180-171915- TYLER TX- 130 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TYLER COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM CDT... AT 125 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES WEST OF CHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESTER BY 140 PM CDT... COLMESNEIL BY 210 PM CDT... WOODVILLE AND IVANHOE BY 215 PM CDT... PEA SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, May 17, 1:44 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides, Vernon | 60 min |
| May 17, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 51 min |
| May 17, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 58 min |
| May 17, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 56 min |
| May 17, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 42 min |
| May 17, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 51 min |
| May 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 28 min | |
| May 17, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 38 min |
| May 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| May 17, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 39 min |
| May 17, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.