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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2012, 5:14 AM CST for Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 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
- Feb 3, 2012, 5:14 AM CST (11:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2012, 5:45 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
226 WFUS54 KLCH 031114 TORLCH LAC003-039-079-031145- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0020.120203T1114Z-120203T1145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 514 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTH CENTRAL RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHEASTERN ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...OBERLIN...OAKDALE... * UNTIL 545 AM CST * AT 511 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OBERLIN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BOND...ALLEN PARISH AIRPORT AND BEAVER 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. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW! && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 3098 9266 3079 9242 3056 9272 3067 9289 TIME...MOT...LOC 1113Z 218DEG 24KT 3070 9273 $$ 23
1 follow-up statement
630
WWUS54 KLCH 031132
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
532 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2012
LAC003-039-079-031145-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-120203T1145Z/
RAPIDES LA-EVANGELINE LA-ALLEN LA-
532 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 AM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN ALLEN...NORTHWESTERN EVANGELINE AND SOUTH CENTRAL
RAPIDES PARISHES...
AT 529 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLEN PARISH AIRPORT..MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO OAKDALE
AND BEAVER
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE
OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3071 9269 3076 9278 3098 9266 3097 9265
3085 9249
TIME...MOT...LOC 1132Z 216DEG 24KT 3077 9270
$$
MMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 7:40 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | Cameron | 11 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 30 min |
| Feb 3, 7:35 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 115 min |
| Feb 3, 8:58 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 27 min |
| Feb 3, 9:56 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 10 days |
| Feb 3, 9:56 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis | 8 days |
| Feb 3, 9:56 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 7 days |
| Feb 3, 10:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 12 days |
| Feb 3, 10:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 6 days |
| Feb 3, 10:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 12:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 22 min |
| Feb 3, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 28 min |
| Feb 3, 2:04 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.