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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 15, 2021Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2021, 5:39 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 15, 2021, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2021, 6:27 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 2560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

648 
WUUS54 KLCH 152239
SVRLCH
TXC199-245-152345-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0103.210615T2239Z-210615T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
539 PM CDT Tue Jun 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Jefferson County in southeastern Texas...
  South central Hardin County in southeastern Texas...

* Until 645 PM CDT.

* At 538 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Sour Lake to near Bevil Oaks to near Beaumont
  to near La Belle, moving southwest at 15 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Beaumont, Sour Lake, Nome, Hamshire, Bevil Oaks, China and Fannett.

This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 853 and
832.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3021 9429 3004 9405 2981 9435 2981 9436
      2989 9436 2989 9444 3010 9444
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 032DEG 13KT 3011 9442 3009 9428 3005 9423 2996
9415

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

K. Kuyper

1 follow-up statement

029 
WWUS54 KLCH 152327
SVSLCH

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
627 PM CDT Tue Jun 15 2021

TXC199-245-152336-
/O.CAN.KLCH.SV.W.0103.000000T0000Z-210615T2345Z/
Jefferson TX-Hardin TX-
627 PM CDT Tue Jun 15 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON AND
SOUTH CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

The storms which prompted the warning has moved out of the warned 
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 3021 9429 3004 9405 2981 9435 2981 9436
      2989 9436 2989 9444 3010 9444
TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 032DEG 13KT 2997 9452 2995 9438 2991 9433 2982
9425

$$

K. Kuyper

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	23 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	49 min
Jun 15, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	52 min
Jun 15, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	48 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	30 min
Jun 15, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.