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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2013, 1:44 PM CST for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2013, 1:44 PM CST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2013, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA
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 25, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
758 WFUS54 KLCH 251944 TORLCH LAC003-011-115-252015- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0007.130225T1944Z-130225T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 144 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...SUGARTOWN...DE RIDDER... SOUTHEASTERN VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES PITKIN... * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 142 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TULLA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGARTOWN BY 205 PM CST... CRAVENS...FULLERTON AND PITKIN BY 215 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 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. && PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1. LAT...LON 3110 9302 3087 9281 3069 9327 3081 9338 TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 229DEG 32KT 3077 9325 $$ 27
1 follow-up statement
296 WWUS54 KLCH 252003 SVSLCH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 203 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013 LAC003-011-115-252013- /O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-130225T2015Z/ BEAUREGARD LA-ALLEN LA-VERNON LA- 203 PM CST MON FEB 25 2013 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERNON...NORTH CENTRAL ALLEN AND NORTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISHES IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3110 9302 3087 9281 3069 9327 3081 9338 TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 229DEG 32KT 3092 9310 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:02 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 43 min | |
| Feb 24, 6:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 61 min |
| Feb 24, 7:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 66 min |
| Feb 24, 8:54 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 66 min |
| Feb 24, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 4:08 AM CST | Gale Warning | LCH | 29 hr | |
| Feb 25, 5:07 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 10 hr |
| Feb 25, 6:01 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 6 hr | |
| Feb 25, 12:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 41 min |
| Feb 25, 12:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 38 min |
| Feb 25, 12:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 47 min |
| Feb 25, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 38 min |
| Feb 25, 12:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 39 min |
| Feb 25, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 46 min |
| Feb 25, 1:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 63 min |
| Feb 25, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 29 min |
| Feb 25, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon | 55 min |
| Feb 25, 1:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 62 min |
| Feb 25, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 2:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 12 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST | Low Water Advisory | LCH | 24 hr | |
| Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 30 hr | |
| Feb 25, 2:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 2:49 PM CST | Wind Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:05 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 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.