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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2012, 1:17 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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, 1:17 PM CST (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2012, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 28 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.
459 WFUS54 KLCH 031917 TORLCH LAC009-031945- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0025.120203T1917Z-120203T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 117 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...MOREAUVILLE...MARKSVILLE...BUNKIE... * UNTIL 145 PM CST * AT 113 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EVERGREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COTTONPORT AND HESSMER BY 130 PM CST... MOREAUVILLE AND MANSURA BY 140 PM CST... MARKSVILLE BY 145 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 3114 9205 3108 9183 3088 9211 3096 9220 TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 220DEG 20KT 3094 9211 $$ 04
1 follow-up statement
925 WWUS54 KLCH 031947 SVSLCH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 147 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 LAC009-031956- /O.EXP.KLCH.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-120203T1945Z/ AVOYELLES LA- 147 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH HAS EXPIRED... THE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED A THREAT. LAT...LON 3114 9205 3108 9183 3088 9211 3096 9220 TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 220DEG 20KT 3094 9211 $$ 04
The 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, 12:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 22 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.