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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2011, 8:46 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 min. 3 reports 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
- Mar 8, 2011, 8:46 PM CST (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2011, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:00 PM CST | TORNADO 1 | 3 W Woodworth, LA | AN EF1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST. MANY TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SNAPPED WHICH BLOCKED SEVERAL FORESTRY ROADS. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 2 TO 3 MILES WITH A PATH WIDTH OF 50 YARDS. |
| Mar 8, 9:04 PM CST | TORNADO 1 | 3 W Woodworth, LA | AN EF1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST. SEVERAL TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SNAPPED WHICH BLOCKED SEVERAL FORESTRY ROADS. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 2 TO 3 MILES WITH A PATH WIDTH OF 50 YARDS. |
| Mar 8, 9:04 PM CST | TORNADO | 3 W Woodworth, LA | AN EF1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST. SEVERAL TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SNAPPED WHICH BLOCKED SEVERAL FORESTRY ROADS. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 2 TO 3 MILES WITH A PATH WIDTH OF 50 YARDS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 8, 1:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
600 WFUS54 KLCH 090246 TORLCH LAC079-090315- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0005.110309T0246Z-110309T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 846 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 842 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ELMER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OTIS BY 905 PM CST... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA. && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 3124 9272 3117 9245 3099 9261 3106 9278 TIME...MOT...LOC 0247Z 205DEG 11KT 3111 9264 $$ 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:26 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Rapides | 109 min |
| Mar 8, 6:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 6:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 7:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon | 59 min |
| Mar 8, 8:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 9:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 10:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:36 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 12:07 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 60 min |
| Mar 9, 1:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 1:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 3:13 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 31 hr | |
| Mar 9, 3:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 4:38 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:53 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 9 hr | |
| Mar 9, 11:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Rapides | 53 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.