Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

Oct 12, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)

Expired

Oct 12, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

155 
WFUS54 KLCH 130031
TORLCH
LAC011-130115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
730 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SINGER...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JUNCTION BY 735 PM CDT
  DE RIDDER BY 800 PM CDT

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 3072 9361 3051 9343 3087 9312 3087 9353

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.