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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2015, 3:47 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 17 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, 2015, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2015, 4:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cameron Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2755 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
544
WFUS54 KLCH 272047
TORLCH
LAC023-272115-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0018.150627T2047Z-150627T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
347 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 346 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A WATERSPOUT MOVING
ACROSS THE MARSH NORTH OF JOHNSONS BAYOU OR 8 MILES EAST OF PORT
ARTHUR. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SABINE NATIONAL WILDLIFE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2979 9383 2982 9384 2983 9382 2982 9382
2985 9379 2988 9378 2989 9377 2990 9377
2992 9376 2994 9376 3003 9359 2978 9350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 254DEG 14KT 2985 9379
$$
TINGLER1 follow-up statement
656
WWUS54 KLCH 272104
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
404 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2015
LAC023-272111-
/O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-150627T2115Z/
CAMERON LA-
404 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CAMERON PARISH IS
CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED
AND REPORTS FROM SOUTHWEST CAMERON PARISH INDICATE THE TORNADO HAS
DISSIPATED. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 2979 9383 2982 9384 2983 9382 2982 9382
2985 9379 2988 9378 2989 9377 2990 9377
2992 9376 2994 9376 3003 9359 2978 9350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 254DEG 14KT 2987 9372
$$
TINGLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 37 min | |
| Jun 27, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Jun 27, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.