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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2013, 4:57 PM CDT for Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 24, 2013, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2013, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 374 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
- 2118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 36 hr |
| May 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 24 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Tyler | 55 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.