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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 16, 2006Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 2006, 9:30 AM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 16, 2006, 9:30 AM CDT (14:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 16, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Vernon Parish, LA

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 16, 5:58 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 2542 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 560 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 719 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 11.5
Supercell composite: 47.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 161430
TORLCH
LAC115-161500-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0039.061016T1430Z-061016T1500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
930 AM CDT MON OCT 16 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT

* AT 926 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ANACOCO...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   HORNBECK BY 935 AM 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 3121 9353 3114 9334 3136 9318 3138 9338
      3128 9343 3127 9352

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 15, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Oct 15, 9:03 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	26 hr
Oct 15, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min
Oct 15, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		62 min
Oct 15, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Oct 16, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		56 min
Oct 16, 1:07 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
Oct 16, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Oct 16, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Oct 16, 2:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	29 min
Oct 16, 3:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vermilion	30 min
Oct 16, 3:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Oct 16, 3:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	24 min
Oct 16, 3:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	32 min
Oct 16, 4:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	28 min
Oct 16, 4:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	24 min
Oct 16, 7:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	41 min
Oct 16, 7:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	40 min
Oct 16, 8:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Vermilion	25 min
Oct 16, 8:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	32 min
Oct 16, 8:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	27 min
Oct 16, 8:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	32 min
Oct 16, 9:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	41 min
Oct 16, 9:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	33 min
Oct 16, 10:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	48 min
Oct 16, 11:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	29 min
Oct 16, 1:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Vernon	3 hr
Oct 16, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	63 min
Oct 16, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min

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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.