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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2011, 2:06 AM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas; Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 26, 2011, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2011, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:15 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Starks, LA | SEVERAL TREES DOWN AT STARKS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 2759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
100 WUUS54 KLCH 260706 SVRLCH LAC011-019-TXC241-351-260730- /O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0052.110426T0706Z-110426T0730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 206 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES BUNA... SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES...DEWEYVILLE...CALL... SOUTHWESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES FIELDS... NORTHWESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...STARKS...DE QUINCY... * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUNA... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OLD SALEM BY 215 AM CDT... DEVILS POCKET AND BANCROFT BY 220 AM CDT... DEWEYVILLE BY 225 AM CDT... LUNITA...FIELDS AND STARKS BY 230 AM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. STAY INDOORS... AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 3055 9331 3023 9338 3035 9406 3063 9397 TIME...MOT...LOC 0706Z 288DEG 36KT 3051 9390 $$ 24
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 41 hr |
| Apr 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 62 min |
| Apr 25, 11:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 12:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 2:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 3:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Newton | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Orange | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 1:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 3:46 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 44 min | |
| Apr 26, 4:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 36 min | |
| Apr 26, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 8:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 50 min | |
| Apr 26, 9:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Apr 26, 10:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 46 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 33 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.