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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 28, 2001Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 28, 2001, 4:37 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 28, 2001, 4:37 AM CST (10:37 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2001, 5:30 AM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 28, 4:55 AM CST	Tornado F0	Vinton, LA

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 1018 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

165 
WFUS54 KLCH 281038
TORLCH
LAC019-281130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
437 AM CST WED NOV 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* AT 432 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF VINTON...MOVING NORTH AT 25
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VINTON...CARLYSS BY 450 AM CST
  SULPHUR BY 500 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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 27, 11:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	57 min
Nov 27, 11:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		2 hr
Nov 27, 11:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		2 hr
Nov 28, 1:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 28, 1:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 28, 2:10 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 28, 3:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	54 min
Nov 28, 4:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	36 min
Nov 28, 10:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	53 min
Nov 28, 1:29 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Nov 28, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	58 min
Nov 28, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	65 min
Nov 28, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	67 min
Nov 28, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	66 min
Nov 28, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	62 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.