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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 12:53 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 22 min. 2 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
- Dec 25, 2012, 12:53 PM CST (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 12:53 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 61 | Alexandria, LA | ALEXANDRIA ASOS REPORTED A 61 MPH WIND GUST. |
| Dec 25, 1:02 PM CST | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 E Tioga, LA | STORM SPOTTER REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES EAST OF TIOGA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
939
WFUS54 KLCH 251853
TORLCH
LAC009-079-251915-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0067.121225T1853Z-121225T1915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1253 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
NORTHEASTERN RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...ALEXANDRIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...PINEVILLE...
ALEXANDRIA...
* UNTIL 115 PM CST
* AT 1248 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ALEXANDRIA
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
PINEVILLE BY 1255 PM CST...
PARADISE...KINGSVILLE AND BALL BY 100 PM CST...
LIBUSE AND KOLIN BY 105 PM CST...
ESLER REGIONAL AIRPORT AND HOLLOWAY BY 110 PM CST...
DEVILLE BY 115 PM 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
&&
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.
LAT...LON 3147 9216 3141 9215 3136 9207 3133 9207
3135 9203 3132 9200 3129 9200 3126 9257
3140 9260 3146 9232 3148 9219
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 258DEG 37KT 3136 9249
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 8:52 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Lafayette, Saint Martin | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 34 min |
| Dec 25, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 58 min |
| Dec 25, 2:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 36 min |
| Dec 25, 2:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 42 min |
| Dec 25, 3:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 61 min |
| Dec 25, 3:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 58 min |
| Dec 25, 3:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Vernon | 19 min |
| Dec 25, 4:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 25 min |
| Dec 25, 4:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 39 min |
| Dec 25, 4:17 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more | 26 hr |
| Dec 25, 4:19 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 41 min |
| Dec 25, 5:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 43 min |
| Dec 25, 5:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 44 min |
| Dec 25, 6:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 6:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 7:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Vermilion | 25 min |
| Dec 25, 7:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 9:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 34 min |
| Dec 25, 9:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 34 min |
| Dec 25, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Rapides, Vernon | 68 min |
| Dec 25, 11:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 36 min |
| Dec 25, 11:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 92 min | |
| Dec 25, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 12:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 37 min |
| Dec 25, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 63 min |
| Dec 25, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry and 1 more | 53 min |
| Dec 25, 12:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 35 min |
| Dec 25, 12:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 3 more | 54 min |
| Dec 25, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 61 min |
| Dec 25, 1:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 90 min | |
| Dec 25, 1:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Vermilion | 54 min |
| Dec 25, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 7 min |
| Dec 25, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 31 min |
| Dec 25, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 63 min |
| Dec 25, 2:46 PM CST | Low Water Advisory | LCH | 23 hr | |
| Dec 25, 2:54 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 66 min | |
| Dec 25, 3:50 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 3:56 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 64 min | |
| Dec 25, 5:14 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 16 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.