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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 3, 2002Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 11:17 AM CDT for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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 3, 2002, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Acadia Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 3, 11:25 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Rayne, 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.

273 
WFUS54 KLCH 031617
TORLCH
LAC001-031645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1116 AM CDT THU OCT 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT

* AT 1113 AM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN RAYNE...MOVING 
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RICHARD BY 1125 AM 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.

LAT...LON 3017 9245 3022 9224 3048 9233 3047 9251

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, 11:32 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, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	58 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.