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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 9, 2001St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2001, 1:43 AM CST for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2001, 1:43 AM CST (07:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2001, 2:45 AM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County St. Mary Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 090743
TORLCH
LAC101-090845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
143 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ST. MARY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 139 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BALDWIN BY 150 AM CST
  CHARENTON...FRANKLIN BY 155 AM CST
  PATTERSON BY 210 AM CST
  BAYOU VISTA...BERWICK BY 215 AM CST
  MORGAN CITY BY 220 AM CST

WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE BECOME TORNADOES. PEOPLE ALONG THE 
SHORE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE! TAKE COVER NOW!

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW!



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

LAT...LON 2976 9179 2953 9154 2966 9111 2977 9138
          2995 9147 2993 9162

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 10:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Cameron61 min
Mar 9, 12:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVermilion64 min
Mar 9, 12:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette, Saint Landry63 min
Mar 9, 1:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHIberia, St. Mary53 min
Mar 9, 2:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Martin30 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.