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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 10, 2023Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2023, 2:40 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
Jun 10, 2023, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2023, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Jasper County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1436 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 10, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 12:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:08 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:35 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 2:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHLafayette37 min
Jun 10, 2:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHLafayette34 min
Jun 10, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon29 min
Jun 10, 3:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon34 min
Jun 10, 4:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides46 min
Jun 10, 4:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon43 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen, Avoyelles32 min
Jun 10, 5:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides24 min
Jun 10, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides31 min
Jun 10, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides28 min
Jun 10, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHBeauregard32 min
Jun 10, 2:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJasper25 min
Jun 10, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Newton20 min
Jun 10, 3:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHNewton28 min
Jun 10, 5:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHSabine32 min
Jun 10, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJasper26 min
Jun 10, 6:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHNewton26 min
Jun 10, 6:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHTyler36 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.