Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2012, 8:51 AM CST for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Feb 18, 2012, 8:51 AM CST (14:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2012, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 8:53 AM CST | TORNADO 0 | 1 Sw Klondike, LA | A WEAK TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 14 AND 717 NEAR KLONDIKE...RIPPED PART OF A METAL ROOF OFF A BARN...SNAPPED A COUPLE OF TELEPHONE POLES AND TREES. THIS TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR 2.5 MILES AND WAS 20 YARDS WIDE. IT MOVED INTO VERMILION PARISH ALON |
| Feb 18, 9:00 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Jennings, LA | A TREE WAS BLOWN ONTO A HOUSE ON SHANNON DRIVE AND POWER LINES WERE DOWNED. |
| Feb 18, 9:10 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Lyons Point, LA | POWER POLES WERE BLOWN DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 4:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 635 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
366 WFUS54 KLCH 181451 TORLCH LAC001-023-053-113-181515- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0029.120218T1451Z-120218T1515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 851 AM CST SAT FEB 18 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...MERMENTAU...CROWLEY... NORTHEASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES KLONDIKE... SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...LAKE ARTHUR...JENNINGS... NORTHWESTERN VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...KAPLAN...GUEYDAN... * UNTIL 915 AM CST * AT 846 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LAKE ARTHUR...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RICEVILLE...GUEYDAN AND MORSE BY 900 AM CST... WRIGHT AND EGAN BY 905 AM CST... LYONS POINT...KAPLAN AND CROWLEY BY 910 AM 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 2994 9273 3018 9277 3035 9234 2999 9222 TIME...MOT...LOC 1451Z 258DEG 44KT 3004 9263 $$ 21
1 follow-up statement
305
WWUS54 KLCH 181507
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
907 AM CST SAT FEB 18 2012
LAC023-053-181516-
/O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-120218T1515Z/
JEFFERSON DAVIS LA-CAMERON LA-
907 AM CST SAT FEB 18 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CAMERON AND SOUTHEASTERN
JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISHES IS CANCELLED...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
LAT...LON 3013 9258 3026 9231 3025 9231 3004 9224
3002 9254
TIME...MOT...LOC 1506Z 258DEG 44KT 3010 9242
$$
LAC001-113-181515-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-120218T1515Z/
ACADIA LA-VERMILION LA-
907 AM CST SAT FEB 18 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR NORTH
CENTRAL VERMILION AND SOUTHERN ACADIA PARISHES...
AT 901 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
TORNADO ON RADAR. THIS RADAR INDICATED TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR RICEVILLE..MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LYONS
POINT AND CROWLEY
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
&&
LAT...LON 3013 9258 3026 9231 3025 9231 3004 9224
3002 9254
TIME...MOT...LOC 1506Z 258DEG 44KT 3010 9242
$$
MMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:08 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 5:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 27 min |
| Feb 18, 6:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 6:54 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 66 min |
| Feb 18, 7:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron | 61 min |
| Feb 18, 7:21 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 84 min |
| Feb 18, 7:23 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Feb 18, 7:27 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 93 min |
| Feb 18, 7:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 62 min |
| Feb 18, 8:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 29 min |
| Feb 18, 8:07 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Feb 18, 8:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion | 60 min |
| Feb 18, 8:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 23 min |
| Feb 18, 8:38 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:00 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| Feb 18, 9:02 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 7 days |
| Feb 18, 9:02 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 5 days |
| Feb 18, 9:02 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Vernon | 3 days |
| Feb 18, 9:02 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 13 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 36 min |
| Feb 18, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 56 min |
| Feb 18, 9:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette | 38 min |
| Feb 18, 9:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 57 min |
| Feb 18, 9:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 28 min |
| Feb 18, 9:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 64 min |
| Feb 18, 9:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 29 min |
| Feb 18, 9:54 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 66 min | |
| Feb 18, 10:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 66 min |
| Feb 18, 10:17 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Feb 18, 10:20 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:46 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Saint Landry | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:54 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 34 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 11:01 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 43 min | |
| Feb 18, 11:16 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:41 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 109 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.