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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2022, 2:12 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2022, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2022, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 11:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 11:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 25, 2:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 58 min |
| Oct 25, 3:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vernon | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis, Vernon | 67 min |
| Oct 25, 4:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Rapides | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 4:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 13 min |
| Oct 25, 5:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 23 min |
| Oct 25, 5:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 5:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 24 min |
| Oct 25, 12:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 59 min |
| Oct 25, 1:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 1:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 2:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 54 min |
| Oct 25, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 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.