Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2001, 7:52 PM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2001, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 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), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Reddell, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLCH 250054 TORLCH LAC039-250145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 752 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 749 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAMOU...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... MAMOU BY 815 PM CDT VILLE PLATTE BY 820 PM CDT CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3085 9257 3063 9256 3058 9224 3082 9223
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 64 min |
| May 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 55 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 33 min |
| May 24, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 54 min |
| May 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 46 min |
| May 24, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 22 min |
| May 24, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 51 min |
| May 25, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 63 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.