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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2012, 12:38 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 22 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, 12:38 PM CST (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2012, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Avoyelles Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
633
WFUS54 KLCH 031838
TORLCH
LAC009-031900-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0024.120203T1838Z-120203T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1238 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...MOREAUVILLE...BORDELONVILLE...
* UNTIL 100 PM CST
* AT 1232 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
MOREAUVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
HAMBURG BY 1240 PM CST...
BORDELONVILLE BY 1245 PM CST...
BIG BEND BY 1255 PM CST...
LAKE OPHELIA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE BY 100 PM CST...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR
SMALL ROOM LIKE A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND USE PILLOWS OR BLANKETS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
&&
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.
LAT...LON 3127 9185 3127 9183 3123 9179 3123 9176
3121 9172 3116 9169 3114 9171 3110 9170
3104 9172 3095 9196 3108 9211 3129 9188
TIME...MOT...LOC 1837Z 225DEG 19KT 3108 9195
$$
ERICKSONThe 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, 5:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 31 min |
| 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, 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.