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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

September 19, 2002Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 2002, 11:38 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 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
Sep 19, 2002, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
Expired
Sep 19, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 2002-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2208 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2002-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 191638
TORLCH
LAC011-191745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1138 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1135 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER FIELDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ORETTA BY 1155 AM CDT
  SINGER BY 1220 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 3059 9366 3046 9351 3068 9315 3088 9336

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.