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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 29, 2002Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2002, 12:25 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 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 29, 2002, 12:25 AM CST (06:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 2002, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 29, 1:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Starks, 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 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 39 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

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The text

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

812 
WFUS54 KLCH 290625
TORLCH
LAC019-290700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1225 AM CST TUE OCT 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 100 AM CST

* AT 1222 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF STARKS...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VINTON BY 1235 AM CST
  SULPHUR BY 100 AM CST

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 3040 9371 3016 9367 3020 9327 3040 9332

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 12:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	58 min
Oct 29, 12:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	3 hr
Oct 29, 1:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	56 min
Oct 29, 1:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	57 min
Oct 29, 1:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	55 min
Oct 29, 1:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	63 min
Oct 29, 2:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen	29 min
Oct 29, 2:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia	65 min
Oct 29, 2:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	58 min
Oct 29, 2:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry	37 min
Oct 29, 2:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Cameron	3 hr
Oct 29, 3:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette	55 min
Oct 29, 3:13 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	3 hr
Oct 29, 3:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	55 min
Oct 29, 3:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	3 hr
Oct 29, 3:32 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		58 min
Oct 29, 3:32 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		58 min
Oct 29, 3:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	58 min
Oct 29, 3:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	33 min
Oct 29, 4:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	2 hr
Oct 29, 4:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Vermilion	2 hr
Oct 29, 6:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Iberia	118 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.