Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 2001, 2:38 AM CST for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 52 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 27, 2001, 2:38 AM CST (08:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 2001, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Evangeline Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
356 WFUS54 KLCH 270838 TORLCH LAC039-270930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 238 AM CST TUE NOV 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 330 AM CST * AT 237 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAMOU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... PINE PRAIRIE...VILLE PLATTE BY 250 AM CST TURKEY CREEK BY 300 AM CST ST. LANDRY BY 310 AM CST 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3067 9261 3054 9246 3076 9218 3097 9237
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 43 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.