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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 4:55 AM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 13, 2001, 4:55 AM CDT (09:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
698 WFUS54 KLCH 130956 TORLCH TXC241-131030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 455 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 530 AM CDT * AT 453 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO BETWEEN ROGANVILLE AND MAGNOLIA SPRINGS... AND ANOTHER TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF KIRBYVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... JASPER BY 505 AM CDT MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 510 AM CDT HOLLY SPRINGS BY 515 AM CDT 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 500 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3083 9407 3070 9392 3078 9388 3104 9391
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 52 min |
| Oct 13, 3:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton | 53 min |
| Oct 13, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.