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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2012, 1:06 AM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
779
WFUS54 KLCH 180606
TORLCH
LAC009-079-180630-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0061.121018T0606Z-121018T0630Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
106 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...MARKSVILLE...EFFIE...
NORTHEASTERN RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 130 AM CDT
* AT 101 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DEVILLE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BROUILLETTE BY 115 AM CDT...
MARKSVILLE BY 120 AM CDT...
LAKE OPHELIA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AND MANSURA BY 125 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 3136 9207 3133 9207 3135 9203 3132 9200
3129 9201 3123 9199 3125 9194 3128 9195
3130 9192 3125 9181 3102 9207 3126 9227
3140 9213
TIME...MOT...LOC 0606Z 312DEG 33KT 3127 9212
$$
21The 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, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 32 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.