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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 3, 2002Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 2:32 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 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 3, 2002, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rapides Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 3, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Alexandria, 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

683 
WFUS54 KLCH 031932
TORLCH
LAC079-032030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
231 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A  
  A TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FOREST HILL BY 240 PM CDT
  LECOMPTE BY 245 PM CDT
  WOODWORTH BY 250 PM CDT
  
THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TAKE COVER NOW

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 3, 9:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Vermilion	4 hr
Oct 3, 10:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Lafayette	32 min
Oct 3, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	28 min
Oct 3, 11:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Lafayette	28 min
Oct 3, 11:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	33 min
Oct 3, 11:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia	3 hr
Oct 3, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	30 min
Oct 3, 12:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline	23 min
Oct 3, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	17 min
Oct 3, 12:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Saint Landry	67 min
Oct 3, 1:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Evangeline	3 hr
Oct 3, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline	33 min
Oct 3, 3:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides	3 hr
Oct 3, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	48 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.