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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 3, 2002Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 3:27 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 2002, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Oct 3, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2002-10-03Temperature 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 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 2002-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

042 
WFUS54 KLCH 032027
TORLCH
LAC079-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
325 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 415 PM CDT

* AT 323 PM CDT...SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ALEXANDRIA 330 PM CDT
  BALL BY 340 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 3122 9254 3125 9234 3146 9234 3143 9259

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 3, 9:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHVermilion4 hr
Oct 3, 10:58 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHLafayette32 min
Oct 3, 11:17 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHAcadia28 min
Oct 3, 11:32 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHLafayette28 min
Oct 3, 11:42 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHAcadia33 min
Oct 3, 11:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHAcadia3 hr
Oct 3, 12:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHAcadia30 min
Oct 3, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHEvangeline23 min
Oct 3, 12:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHAcadia17 min
Oct 3, 12:53 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHEvangeline, Saint Landry67 min
Oct 3, 1:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHEvangeline3 hr
Oct 3, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHEvangeline33 min
Oct 3, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHRapides58 min
Oct 3, 3:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHRapides3 hr

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.