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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2015, 8:11 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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
- Apr 19, 2015, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2015, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:19 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Ball, LA | SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN BALL |
| Apr 19, 8:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Tioga, LA | PUBLIC REPORTS HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL IN TIOGA |
| Apr 19, 8:31 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Pineville, LA | PUBLIC REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL NORTH OF PINEVILLE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS54 KLCH 200111
TORLCH
LAC079-200145-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0002.150420T0111Z-150420T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
811 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 810 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR TIMBER TRAILS...OR NEAR ALEXANDRIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...AND
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALEXANDRIA...PINEVILLE...ALEXANDRIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...BALL...
DEVILLE...KOLIN...LIBUSE...HOLLOWAY...ESLER REGIONAL AIRPORT...
TIOGA...KINGSVILLE...PARADISE AND TIMBER TRAILS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR 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 3147 9219 3147 9217 3140 9215 3130 9215
3130 9216 3133 9219 3133 9222 3132 9223
3126 9223 3128 9260 3140 9259 3148 9220
TIME...MOT...LOC 0110Z 273DEG 25KT 3137 9251
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 36 min | |
| Apr 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 19 min |
| Apr 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 94 min | |
| Apr 19, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Apr 19, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 81 min |
| Apr 19, 10:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Apr 19, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 4 more | 83 min |
| Apr 20, 1:46 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 89 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.