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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 10, 2014Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2014, 10:20 AM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 10, 2014, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2014, 10:45 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 12.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

028 
WFUS54 KLCH 101520
TORLCH
LAC055-113-101545-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0003.140610T1520Z-140610T1545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1020 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES LAFAYETTE...
  NORTHEASTERN VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES...KAPLAN...ABBEVILLE...

* UNTIL 1045 AM CDT

* AT 1019 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MEAUX...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MAURICE...YOUNGSVILLE AND BROUSSARD

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 2988 9219 3002 9231 3025 9197 3024 9194
      3020 9198 3019 9198 3018 9197 3019 9192
      3015 9191 3012 9194 3000 9198 2998 9201
TIME...MOT...LOC 1520Z 233DEG 28KT 3001 9216

$$

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1 follow-up statement

513 
WWUS54 KLCH 101542
SVSLCH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1042 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014

LAC055-113-101551-
/O.EXP.KLCH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140610T1545Z/
LAFAYETTE LA-VERMILION LA-
1042 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN VERMILION AND SOUTHEASTERN
LAFAYETTE PARISHES WILL EXPIRE AT 1045 AM CDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...AND NO 
LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.

LAT...LON 2988 9219 3002 9231 3025 9197 3024 9194
      3020 9198 3019 9198 3018 9197 3019 9192
      3015 9191 3012 9194 3000 9198 2998 9201
TIME...MOT...LOC 1541Z 233DEG 28KT 3011 9201

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	2 hr
Jun 10, 3:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Vernon	2 hr
Jun 10, 5:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 3 more	115 min
Jun 10, 6:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 2 more	115 min
Jun 10, 7:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	117 min
Jun 10, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		97 min
Jun 10, 8:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	5 days
Jun 10, 8:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry and 2 more	115 min
Jun 10, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	54 min
Jun 10, 9:30 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Jun 10, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	63 min
Jun 10, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Jun 10, 10:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion	110 min
Jun 10, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	53 hr
Jun 10, 2:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	31 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.