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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:07 AM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 1:07 AM CST (07:07 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Vernon Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 8, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 080709
TORLCH

LAC115-080800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
107 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 200 AM CST

* AT 103 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVANS BY 125 AM CST
  PICKERING BY 155 AM CST
  LEESVILLE...NEW LLANO BY 200 AM CST

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3108 9351 3090 9351 3113 9307 3132 9329

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 2:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	43 min
Nov 8, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	56 min
Nov 8, 3:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	67 min
Nov 8, 5:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	63 min
Nov 8, 11:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	67 min
Nov 8, 12:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	58 min
Nov 8, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	62 min
Nov 8, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	63 min
Nov 8, 3:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	65 min

Nearby

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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.