Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 11:32 AM CDT for Lafayette 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, 11:32 AM CDT (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lafayette Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lafayette, 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 3, 9:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
120 WFUS54 KLCH 031632 TORLCH LAC055-031700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1131 AM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL NOON CDT * AT 1129 AM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN LAFAYETTE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. 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 3005 9201 3015 9194 3037 9201 3028 9216
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, 11:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 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.