WUUS54 KLCH 202231
SVRLCH
TXC199-241-245-351-361-457-202300-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0040.120420T2231Z-120420T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
531 PM CDT FRI APR 20 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES...SILSBEE...LUMBERTON...
  SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES...KIRBYVILLE...EVADALE...BUNA...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES...DEWEYVILLE...CALL...
  NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES...VIDOR...MAURICEVILLE...
  SOUTHEASTERN TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES FRED...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...FROM 11 MILES NORTH
  OF FRED TO 8 MILES WEST OF VIDOR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  EVADALE BY 535 PM CDT...
  MAGNOLIA SPRINGS...VIDOR...PINE FOREST AND MT. UNION BY 540 PM
  CDT...
  BUNA BY 550 PM CDT...
  KIRBYVILLE AND GIST BY 555 PM CDT...
  WRIGHTS SETTLEMENT AND MAURICEVILLE BY 600 PM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. STAY INDOORS...
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

WINDS WERE RECENTLY REPORTED GUSTING TO 55 MPH IN LUMBERTON.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

&&

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.

LAT...LON 3075 9420 3077 9373 3039 9375 3034 9377
      3034 9376 3034 9375 3014 9376 3012 9421
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 268DEG 26KT 3073 9412 3016 9410

$$
TINGLER