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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2015, 8:43 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report 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, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2015, 9:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Deville, LA | MULTIPLE PUBLIC REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN DEVILLE |
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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.
893
WFUS54 KLCH 200143
TORLCH
LAC009-079-200215-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0003.150420T0143Z-150420T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
843 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...
NORTHWESTERN AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 842 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR DEVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF EFFIE...AND MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALEXANDRIA...EFFIE...DEVILLE...KOLIN...LIBUSE...HOLLOWAY...ESLER
REGIONAL AIRPORT...BROUILLETTE...LAKE OPHELIA NATIONAL WILDLIFE
REFUGE AND CENTERPOINT.
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.
TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3143 9216 3136 9208 3132 9208 3134 9202
3132 9200 3128 9202 3127 9199 3126 9201
3122 9199 3125 9195 3122 9195 3123 9192
3127 9195 3129 9193 3129 9188 3126 9185
3112 9188 3127 9241 3144 9238 3145 9233
TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 280DEG 32KT 3132 9222
$$
131 follow-up statement
700
WWUS54 KLCH 200202
SVSLCH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
902 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015
LAC009-079-200211-
/O.CAN.KLCH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150420T0215Z/
RAPIDES LA-AVOYELLES LA-
902 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN RAPIDES AND NORTHWESTERN
AVOYELLES PARISHES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN
LIKELY AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR
NORTHEASTERN AVOYELLES PARISH.
LAT...LON 3143 9216 3136 9208 3132 9208 3134 9202
3132 9200 3128 9202 3127 9199 3126 9201
3122 9199 3125 9195 3122 9195 3123 9192
3127 9195 3129 9193 3129 9188 3126 9185
3112 9188 3127 9241 3144 9238 3145 9233
TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 280DEG 32KT 3129 9202
$$
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, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 36 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.