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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2012, 12:58 AM CDT for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 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
- Oct 18, 2012, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
403 WFUS54 KLCH 180558 TORLCH LAC079-115-180630- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0060.121018T0558Z-121018T0630Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1258 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES HINESTON... EAST CENTRAL VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1257 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HINESTON... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ELMER BY 105 AM CDT... 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. && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 3113 9252 3095 9279 3112 9291 3125 9276 TIME...MOT...LOC 0558Z 314DEG 21KT 3113 9276 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 12:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 26 min |
| Oct 18, 12:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 27 min |
| Oct 18, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 24 min |
| Oct 18, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 53 min |
| Oct 18, 1:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 56 min |
| Oct 18, 2:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 66 min |
| Oct 18, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 2:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 65 min | |
| Oct 18, 3:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette | 64 min |
| Oct 18, 4:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 66 min |
| Oct 18, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia, Vermilion | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.