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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2012, 6:19 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 10, 2012, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | S Buna, TX | JASPER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS A FEW TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 60 SOUTH OF BUNA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2090 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074
WUUS54 KLCH 102319
SVRLCH
TXC241-351-361-110000-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0082.120810T2319Z-120811T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
619 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES...EVADALE...BUNA...
SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...OVER EVADALE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PINE FOREST BY 650 PM CDT...
GIST BY 655 PM 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.
CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...WHEN THUNDER ROARS...GO INDOORS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
&&
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.
LAT...LON 3032 9410 3033 9410 3034 9408 3037 9410
3049 9401 3037 9375 3035 9376 3016 9403
3031 9411
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 311DEG 11KT 3036 9398
$$
RUA1 follow-up statement
580
WWUS54 KLCH 102343
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
643 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2012
TXC241-351-361-110000-
/O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-120811T0000Z/
JASPER TX-NEWTON TX-ORANGE TX-
643 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN ORANGE...SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON AND SOUTHEASTERN JASPER
COUNTIES...
AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON RADAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR GIST..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GIST BY 650 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! REMEMBER...WHEN THUNDER ROARS...GO INDOORS.
A FEW TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN OH HIGHWAY 62 BETWEEN BUNA AND
GIST WITH THIS STORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3036 9396 3038 9377 3037 9375 3035 9376
3018 9401 3020 9405 3027 9409
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 311DEG 11KT 3026 9395
$$
RUAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 37 min |
| Aug 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 72 min |
| Aug 10, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Orange | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton, Orange | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.