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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 7, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 5:41 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 10 Nnw Jasper, TX | TREES REPORTED DOWN ON POWER LINES JUST SOUTH OF BOYKIN SPRINGS RECREATIONAL AREA. |
| Apr 7, 5:41 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Nw Jasper, TX | TREES REPORTED DOWN ON POWER LINES JUST SOUTH OF BOYKIN SPRINGS RECREATIONAL AREA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
303
WUUS54 KLCH 072221
SVRLCH
TXC241-351-072300-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0019.210407T2221Z-210407T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
521 PM CDT Wed Apr 7 2021
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Newton County in southeastern Texas...
Northern Jasper County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 600 PM CDT.
* At 520 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northwest
of Ebenezer, moving east at 35 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...
Ebenezer, Browndell, Harrisburg and Sam Rayburn Dam.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3105 9438 3111 9406 3114 9403 3116 9391
3116 9381 3096 9385 3100 9424 3102 9425
3102 9428 3104 9429 3102 9432 3104 9434
3103 9440
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 272DEG 32KT 3113 9422
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
241 follow-up statement
234
WWUS54 KLCH 072248
SVSLCH
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
548 PM CDT Wed Apr 7 2021
TXC241-351-072300-
/O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-210407T2300Z/
Newton TX-Jasper TX-
548 PM CDT Wed Apr 7 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN NEWTON AND NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTIES...
At 548 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Browndell, or
14 miles north of Jasper, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Ebenezer, Browndell, Harrisburg and Sam Rayburn Dam.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3111 9406 3114 9403 3116 9391 3116 9381
3096 9385 3100 9424 3102 9425
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 272DEG 32KT 3112 9392
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.