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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2014, 2:22 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2014, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 986 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
192 WFUS54 KLCH 271922 TORLCH LAC019-053-272000- /O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0006.140627T1922Z-140627T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 222 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES...IOWA...HAYES... SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAYES... MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BELL CITY AND LACASSINE. 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 3004 9308 3036 9306 3035 9288 3004 9287 TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 184DEG 21KT 3009 9296 $$ RUA
1 follow-up statement
733
WWUS54 KLCH 271945
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
245 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014
LAC019-271954-
/O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-140627T2000Z/
CALCASIEU LA-
245 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN CALCASIEU PARISH IS
CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3010 9290 3012 9291 3013 9291 3014 9289
3016 9290 3016 9299 3033 9288 3024 9287
3008 9288
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 217DEG 15KT 3015 9290
$$
LAC053-272000-
/O.CON.KLCH.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-140627T2000Z/
JEFFERSON DAVIS LA-
245 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH...
AT 240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
TORNADO ON RADAR. THIS RADAR INDICATED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
SOUTH OF LACASSINE..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED PARISH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
&&
LAT...LON 3010 9290 3012 9291 3013 9291 3014 9289
3016 9290 3016 9299 3033 9288 3024 9287
3008 9288
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 217DEG 15KT 3015 9290
$$
RUAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Saint Landry | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 10:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 11:05 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 40 min | |
| Jun 27, 11:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Calcasieu | 112 min |
| Jun 27, 11:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 37 min | |
| Jun 27, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 26 min | |
| Jun 27, 12:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 51 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 56 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 94 min |
| Jun 27, 4:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 6 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.