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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2009, 3:50 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 27, 2009, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2009, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLCH 272050 TORLCH LAC115-272115- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0007.090327T2050Z-090327T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 350 PM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF SIMPSON...OR NEAR SLAGLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SIMPSON BY 415 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3130 9304 3119 9287 3111 9306 3114 9309 TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 232DEG 10KT 3115 9305 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 25 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 118 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 52 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 min | |
| Mar 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 56 min | |
| Mar 26, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 54 hr | |
| Mar 27, 5:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 16 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 23 min |
| Mar 27, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 28 min |
| Mar 27, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.