Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2001, 4:03 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Oct 12, 2001, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Evadale, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
851 WFUS54 KLCH 122105 TORLCH TXC241-122200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 403 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EVADALE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... BUNA BY 425 PM CDT KIRBYVILLE BY 500 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 56 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001
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.