Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 12:22 PM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 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, 12:22 PM CDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Evangeline Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Turkey Creek, 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
755 WFUS54 KLCH 031722 TORLCH LAC039-031745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1222 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1219 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF TURKEY CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR... TURKEY CREEK BY 1230 PM CDT ST. LANDRY BY 1245 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 3084 9254 3070 9240 3083 9224 3097 9238
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, 11:32 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, 12:43 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.