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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 8, 2016Newton County, Texas; Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 8, 2016, 8:45 PM CST for Newton County, Texas; Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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: Jan 8, 2016, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 2016, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Newton County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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
Jan 8, 9:15 PM CST	HAIL 1.5	Fields, LA	PUBLIC PHOTO SUBMITTED TO LOCAL NEWS MEDIA SHOWS PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL IN FIELDS. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

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
Jan 8, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 1021 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

As transmitted.

728 
WFUS54 KLCH 090245
TORLCH
LAC011-TXC351-090315-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0004.160109T0245Z-160109T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
845 PM CST FRI JAN 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 915 PM CST
    
* AT 844 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DEVILS POCKET...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  FIELDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BANCROFT AROUND 850 PM CST.
  FIELDS AND BIVENS AROUND 900 PM CST.
  ORETTA AROUND 910 PM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3074 9350 3049 9341 3049 9349 3046 9349
      3040 9368 3040 9374 3039 9376 3038 9376
      3037 9379 3059 9386
TIME...MOT...LOC 0244Z 240DEG 33KT 3047 9371 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Orange	30 min
Jan 8, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	58 min
Jan 8, 7:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper	43 min
Jan 8, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson	23 min
Jan 8, 8:11 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	3 hr
Jan 8, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton	31 min
Jan 8, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	35 min
Jan 8, 9:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange	39 min
Jan 8, 9:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	28 min
Jan 9, 9:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper	52 hr
Jan 9, 9:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	6 days
Jan 8, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	33 min
Jan 8, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	60 min
Jan 8, 7:56 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		64 min
Jan 8, 8:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	26 min
Jan 8, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline	33 min
Jan 8, 9:02 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		58 min
Jan 8, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	26 min
Jan 8, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	29 min
Jan 8, 9:50 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		55 min
Jan 8, 9:54 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		36 min
Jan 8, 10:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	30 min
Jan 8, 10:01 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		29 min
Jan 8, 10:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	59 min
Jan 8, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	25 min
Jan 8, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Rapides	30 min
Jan 8, 10:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	23 min
Jan 8, 10:26 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		64 min
Jan 8, 10:29 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Jan 8, 10:45 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Jan 8, 10:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Saint Landry	65 min
Jan 8, 10:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	48 min
Jan 8, 11:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		31 min
Jan 8, 11:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	21 min
Jan 8, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis	23 min
Jan 8, 11:45 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Jan 9, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	44 min
Jan 9, 12:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		86 min
Jan 9, 12:27 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	48 min
Jan 9, 12:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	26 min
Jan 9, 12:54 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	3 hr
Jan 9, 12:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	46 min
Jan 9, 1:07 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	38 min
Jan 9, 1:44 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		2 hr
Jan 9, 1:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	44 min
Jan 9, 2:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Iberia, St. Mary	47 min
Jan 9, 3:47 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		88 min
Jan 9, 9:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	3 days
Jan 9, 9:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	26 hr

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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.