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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

February 25, 20134 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2013, 1:20 PM CST for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 25, 2013, 1:20 PM CST (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2013, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 25, 12:26 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

190 
WUUS54 KLCH 251920
SVRLCH
LAC003-011-079-115-252015-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0021.130225T1920Z-130225T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
120 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES GLENMORA...
  ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES...REEVES...MITTIE...ELIZABETH...
  NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES...SUGARTOWN...DRY CREEK...
  SOUTHEASTERN VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES PITKIN...

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 121 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...9 MILES NORTHWEST OF REEVES...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DRY CREEK BY 135 PM CST...
  MITTIE BY 145 PM CST...
  GRANT AND SUGARTOWN BY 150 PM CST...
  PITKIN BY 200 PM CST...
  ELIZABETH BY 205 PM CST...

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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

&&

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.

LAT...LON 3095 9251 3090 9257 3089 9260 3087 9260
      3046 9308 3062 9328 3114 9281
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 217DEG 35KT 3060 9316

$$
06

2 follow-up statements

006 
WWUS54 KLCH 251932
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
132 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013

LAC003-011-079-115-252015-
/O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-130225T2015Z/
RAPIDES LA-BEAUREGARD LA-ALLEN LA-VERNON LA-
132 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CST
FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERNON...ALLEN...NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD AND
SOUTHWESTERN RAPIDES PARISHES...

AT 128 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON RADAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR REEVES..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DRY CREEK BY 145 PM CST...
  MITTIE BY 155 PM CST...
  ELIZABETH BY 215 PM CST...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RADAR INDICATED SOME ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3095 9251 3090 9257 3089 9260 3087 9260
      3046 9308 3062 9328 3114 9281
TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 237DEG 30KT 3055 9308

$$

507 
WWUS54 KLCH 251952
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
152 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013

LAC003-011-079-115-252015-
/O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-130225T2015Z/
RAPIDES LA-BEAUREGARD LA-ALLEN LA-VERNON LA-
152 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CST
FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERNON...ALLEN...NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD AND
SOUTHWESTERN RAPIDES PARISHES...

AT 147 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON RADAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MITTIE..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. 

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELIZABETH BY 200 PM CST...
  GLENMORA BY 215 PM CST...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3105 9277 3095 9251 3090 9257 3089 9260
      3087 9260 3046 9308 3062 9328
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 237DEG 30KT 3077 9282

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 6:02 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		43 min
Feb 24, 6:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	61 min
Feb 24, 7:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	66 min
Feb 24, 8:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	66 min
Feb 24, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry	65 min
Feb 25, 4:08 AM CST	Gale Warning	LCH		29 hr
Feb 25, 5:07 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	Cameron, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	10 hr
Feb 25, 6:01 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		6 hr
Feb 25, 12:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	41 min
Feb 25, 12:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	38 min
Feb 25, 12:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	47 min
Feb 25, 12:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	38 min
Feb 25, 12:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	39 min
Feb 25, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	46 min
Feb 25, 1:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	63 min
Feb 25, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
Feb 25, 1:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	62 min
Feb 25, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	65 min
Feb 25, 1:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Vernon	31 min
Feb 25, 2:35 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	12 hr
Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST	Low Water Advisory	LCH		24 hr
Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		30 hr
Feb 25, 2:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	42 min
Feb 25, 2:49 PM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	Cameron, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	24 hr
Feb 25, 3:05 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		55 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.