A very humid and unstable air mass remained in place across Southeast Texas through mid September. A pair of funnel clouds were reported during the afternoon of the 16th.
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The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
A very humid and unstable air mass remained in place across Southeast Texas through mid September. A pair of funnel clouds were reported during the afternoon of the 16th.
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 Sep 16, 12:05 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 105 PM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014 .DISCUSSION... FOR THE 18Z TAF PACKAGE. && .AVIATION... COVERAGE OF CONVECTION STARTING TO INCREASE INLAND...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-10. PRESERVED THE INHERITED TEMPO -TSRA AT THE SOUTHERN TERMINALS...AND THE VCSH AT KAEX WITH CONVECTIVE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY BOTH LESS THAN FARTHER SOUTH. ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO WIND DOWN BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. VFR TO PREVAIL OUTSIDE OF CONVECTION. 13 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1017 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014/ UPDATE...THE MORNING SOUNDING CHECKED IN WITH A PWAT OF 2.26 INCHES, TRENDING HIGHER THAN PREVIOUS AND A STANDARD DEVIATION OVER THE CLIMO OF 1.7 INCHES. MOISTURE CONTINUES A FEED INTO THE REGION ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE EASTERLY WAVE ENTERING SOUTH TEXAS. SINCE BOTH THE NEWER GUIDANCE GFS AND THE 08Z EURO ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON HIGHER POPS AND UPPER DIVERGENCE ONGOING, RAISED POPS TO 60 PERCENT AREA WIDE THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO TWEAKED TEMPS LOWER THAN THE GUIDANCE DUE TO THE INCREASING RAIN CHANCES. SWEENEY PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 706 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014/ AVIATION UPDATE...REGARDING 12Z TAF ISSUANCE. A LOW LEVEL EASTERLY WAVE ADVANCING ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF...COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION IN A NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT...WILL YIELD CONSIDERABLE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY. SCATTERED CONVECTION CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 10 CORRIDOR INCLUDING OUR TERMINALS OF BPT...LCH...LFT AND ARA...BECOMING MORE ISOLATED FURTHER NORTH. THIS CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO RAMP UP BY MID/LATE MORNING AND CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...VFR IS STILL EXPECTED TO PREVAIL WHILE WINDS WILL REMAIN LIGHT. MARCOTTE PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 331 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014/ DISCUSSION...MAIN FORECAST ISSUES WILL BE POPS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. GOOD MOISTURE PROFILE IS IN PLACE FOR TODAY AS 00Z LCH SOUNDING IS GENERALLY MOIST ADIABATIC. PWATS ARE FORECASTED TO BE AT OR ABOVE 2 INCHES ESPECIALLY FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA. GIVEN THIS AND UPPER DIFFLUENCE PROGGED OVER THE NORTHERN GULF...WILL HAVE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY. HEAVIEST RAIN WILL LIKELY BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF I10 CORRIDOR. A MORE AMPLIFIED UPPER PATTERN WILL BEGIN ON WEDNESDAY WITH UPPER TROUGH DIGGING INTO THE SOUTHEAST U.S WITH RIDGING OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. WITH PWATS STILL PROGGED NEAR 2 INCHES AND PERIODIC SHORTWAVE ENERGY ROTATING AROUND TROUGH...WILL MAINTAIN MAINLY DAYTIME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS THROUGH THURSDAY. WILL TAPER BACK POPS BEGINNING FRIDAY AS UPPER RIDGE IS FORECASTED TO WEDGE OVER AREA. ALSO PWATS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LOWER. MODELS ARE FORECASTING A COLD FRONT TO APPROACH THE REGION EARLY NEXT WEEK. SINCE THIS IS VERY LATE IN THE FORECAST CYCLE...WILL ONLY SHOW A SMALL DROP IN TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. IF COOLER GFS VERIFIES...MAY SEE LOW TEMPERATURES WELL DOWN INTO THE 60S EARLY NEXT WEEK FOR MOST OF THE AREA. MARINE...BROAD HIGH PRESSURE WILL MAINTAIN A RELATIVELY BENIGN FLOW THROUGH THURSDAY. FOR THE WEEKEND...GRADIENT WILL TIGHTEN SOME AS LARGE HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS OVER THE MID ATLANTIC REGION. AT THAT TIME...WILL INCREASE WAVES TO 3 FEET OFFSHORE. GRADIENT WILL RELAX EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH APPROACH OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY. 04 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 85 73 88 73 / 60 30 40 20 KBPT 86 74 87 73 / 60 40 50 30 KAEX 87 71 90 71 / 60 20 30 20 KLFT 84 73 89 72 / 60 30 40 20 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 431 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014 GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055- 073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262-170945- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- 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 FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE- ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE- UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN- WEST CAMERON-EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- NORTHERN JASPER-NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 431 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2014 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 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR TODAY THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS VERY LOW ALTHOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT MAY BECOME FAVORABLE FOR TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS. THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL DECREASE EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY. LESS COVERAGE IN THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED BEGINNING FRIDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AT THIS TIME...THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS VERY LOW. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER HAZARDS. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:01 UTC.
2 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The Coast Guard station a Sabine Pass reported a funnel cloud around one mile north of the station.
A funnel cloud was reported along Highway 105 between Beaumont and Sour Lake by Beaumont media.
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