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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 14, 2001Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 14, 2001, 3:46 PM CST for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
Mar 14, 2001, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 12:00Z on 2001-03-14Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2001-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 142154 COR
TORLCH

TXC457-142245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
346 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 344 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODVILLE ...MOVING     
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODVILLE AND WARREN BY 415 PM 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.

LAT...LON 3060 9495 3047 9481 3062 9418 3095 9438

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson65 min
Mar 14, 4:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Newton66 min
Mar 14, 5:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson40 min
Mar 14, 5:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJefferson, Orange50 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.