NWS Lake Charles Blog

We are not the only weather office blogging this storm:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/temp/ritablog.htm

Nice to see the NWS alloting a person to communicate in this form. Even have some pictures available.

And, you can watch KPLC TV in Lake Charles live on the web here:

http://www.kplctv.com/

They are using a crude setup, away from their main studio. Using a single mike, and large papers on the small desk with phone numbers since they have no graphics system available. Their meteorologist, Curtis Atkinson, was an intern here at ABC 33/40 in 2000 and is from Blount county.

Just heard our own John Oldshue on the phone talking with Curtis feeding him information... go John!
Posted by   www
on September 23, 2005, 8:40 pm
Looks as if the observations from Lake Charles are about to run out.

Excerpt from Lake Charles NWS Blog
9:10 PM - With the power out at the airport, the automated observing unit on the runway
complex (the unit which supplies the official hourly weather for Lake Charles)
has only about 30 more minutes of functionality before the backup batteries
run out.



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Posted by   www
on September 23, 2005, 9:06 pm
Interesting tornado warning.

No tornado detected. High winds generated this warning.

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
959 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* WARNING FOR ONSET OF DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO FORCE WINDS FOR...
CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1200 AM CDT

* AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HURRICANE EYEWALL APPROACHING THE WARNING
AREA.

* DESTRUCTIVE SUSTAINED WINDS OF 100 TO 120 MPH WILL SPREAD ACROSS
CAMERON PARISH AND JEFFERSON COUNTY PRODUCING TORNADO-LIKE DAMAGE
THROUGH MIDNIGHT.


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Posted by  
on September 23, 2005, 9:43 pm
call it the everlasting tornado..........

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