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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2001, 2:49 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 3 reports 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
- Oct 12, 2001, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sour Lake, TX | |
| Oct 12, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bevil Oaks, TX | |
| Oct 12, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lumberton, TX |
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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
414 WFUS54 KLCH 121949 TORLCH TXC199-245-122045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 249 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUR LAKE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... SOUR LAKE BY 300 PM CDT BEVIL OAKS BY 310 PM CDT LUMBERTON...KOUNTZE...SILSBEE BY 345 PM 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. LAT...LON 3007 9442 3004 9421 3040 9411 3044 9442
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.