An isolated tornado touched down in southeast Texas, causing minor damage.
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The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
An isolated tornado touched down in southeast Texas, causing minor damage.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Oct 17, 9:12 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1012 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 .DISCUSSION... NORTH SOUTH ORIENTED LINE OF SHRA/TSRA OVER WESTERN LA/SE TX MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INFLOW SIDE OF THE SFC LOW PRESENTLY OVER GLS BAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS ARE SHOWING WEAK ROTATION...THUS ADDED SVR WORDING ACROSS WESTERN COASTAL WATER ZONES THIS MORNING. FOR THIS AFTERNOON...EMPHASIS OF HEAVY RAIN/POSSIBLE SVR TSRA SHIFTS EAST INTO LA...WHERE A SLIGHT RISK ALREADY EXISTS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON OVER ALL OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LA ZONES. VAD ALREADY SHOWING FAVORABLE PROFILES FOR ROTATING TSRA OVER LA REGION. DML && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 422 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007/ DISCUSSION...MAIN FORECAST ISSUE IN THE NEAR TERM WILL BE POPS/RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER MOVED THROUGH SW LOUISIANA EARLY THIS MORNING AND PRODUCED OVER 2 INCHES AT THE LCH AIRPORT AS OF 08Z. THERE COULD BE SOME URBAN FLOODING ISSUES ESPECIALLY NEAR THE LCH AREA BUT ACTIVITY SHOULD WEAKEN AS IT MOVES FURTHER INLAND. NAM AND GFS PROG ANOTHER SHORT WAVE INTO THE REGION BY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH PWATS FORECASTED TO INCREASE TO OVER 2 INCHES..WILL KEEP HIGH POPS ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. DEEP LAYER MOISTURE SHOULD SHIFT FURTHER EAST BEGINNING TONIGHT. WILL STILL THOUGH KEEP LOW POPS GOING INTO THURSDAY. WEAK BOUNDARY WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY WITH DRIER AIR EXPECTED FOR MOST OF THE WEEKEND. RETURN FLOW SETS UP BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS NEXT IN SERIES OF FRONTS IS PROGGED THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA BY LATE MONDAY. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS FROM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY AS GFS FORECASTS UPPER LOW TO CUT OFF OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. AVIATION...EXPECT PERIODIC MVFR CONDITIONS TODAY OVER OVER REGIONAL AIRPORTS AS SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP... ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. BKN-OVC CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH CONVECTIVE DEBRIS...BUT GENERALLY EXPECT VFR CONDS TONIGHT. MARINE...TIDE LEVELS ARE DROPPING THIS MORNING AT CALCASIEU PASS AND HENCE WILL ALLOW COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY TO EXPIRE. HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES AND CONTINUED SOUTHERLY FLOW TONIGHT MAY ALLOW FOR TIDES TO APPROACH 3.5 FEET AGAIN AROUND MIDIGHT IN CAMERON. WILL HAVE SCEC OVER OFFSHORE ZONES TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT AS MODERATE SOUTHEAST FLOW IS EXPECTED. GRADIENT WILL LESSEN ON THURSDAY AS SURFACE TROUGH APPROACHES AND MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESUME LATE THIS WEEKEND WITH SCEC OR SCA CONDITIONS POSSIBLE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 83 74 91 68 / 60 20 20 20 KBPT 85 74 91 69 / 60 20 20 20 KAEX 80 70 90 64 / 70 20 20 20 KLFT 82 73 90 68 / 70 20 20 30 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 554 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-181100- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA TO CAMERON, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD- ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA- LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY- LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- 554 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA IS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM VILLAGE MILLS TEXAS TO OPELOUSAS LOUISIANA. LARGE HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE RISK AREA. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END BY EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:34 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Trained spotters observed a tornado pass over Highway 96, blowing a few trees down.
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