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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2015, 9:49 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 17, 2015, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2015, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
098
WFUS54 KLCH 180249
TORLCH
TXC241-351-180315-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0016.150618T0249Z-150618T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
949 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 948 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR WRIGHTS SETTLEMENT...OR NEAR BUNA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 30
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WRIGHTS SETTLEMENT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3035 9387 3037 9396 3056 9394 3054 9375
TIME...MOT...LOC 0248Z 193DEG 29KT 3039 9391
$$
K. KUYPERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 91 min |
| Jun 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Orange | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 94 min |
| Jun 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Orange | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 1:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 42 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 26 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 7 days |
| Jun 18, 9:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 7 days |
| Jun 18, 1:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 days |
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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.