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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 28, 2002Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2002, 10:56 PM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 28, 2002, 10:56 PM CST (04:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardin County, TX

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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 28, 10:58 PM CST	Tornado F1	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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 28, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

426 
WFUS54 KLCH 290456
TORLCH
TXC199-290600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1056 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 1051 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LUMBERTON BY 1155 PM CST

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3024 9461 3012 9456 3020 9421 3039 9419

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 28, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	54 min
Oct 28, 11:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	57 min
Oct 28, 11:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Orange	58 min
Oct 28, 11:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	29 min
Oct 29, 12:07 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Orange	3 hr
Oct 29, 12:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	56 min
Oct 29, 12:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	3 hr

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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.