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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2021, 5:12 PM CDT for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 23, 2021, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2021, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
333
WUUS54 KLCH 232212
SVRLCH
TXC241-457-232315-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0052.210423T2212Z-210423T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
512 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Tyler County in southeastern Texas...
Northern Jasper County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 615 PM CDT.
* At 512 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 12 miles southeast of Etoile to Woodville, moving
northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Jasper, Woodville, Colmesneil, Ebenezer, Town Bluff, Rockland,
Browndell, Ivanhoe and Sam Rayburn Dam.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for southeastern
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with these storms. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3104 9442 3111 9406 3114 9403 3116 9391
3113 9390 3077 9399 3065 9449
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 233DEG 26KT 3123 9432 3080 9440
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
Stigger/871 follow-up statement
055
WWUS54 KLCH 232245
SVSLCH
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
545 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021
TXC241-457-232315-
/O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-210423T2315Z/
Tyler TX-Jasper TX-
545 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN TYLER AND NORTHERN JASPER COUNTIES...
At 545 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Macune to 7 miles south of Ebenezer, moving east
at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Jasper, Colmesneil, Rockland, Ebenezer, Browndell and Sam Rayburn
Dam.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for southeastern
Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3104 9442 3111 9406 3114 9403 3116 9391
3113 9390 3093 9395 3079 9446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 270DEG 26KT 3136 9411 3094 9419
HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
Stigger/87The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 4 days |
| Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Newton, Orange | 76 days |
| Apr 23, 2:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 12 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Sabine | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Tyler | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 63 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.