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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 8, 2016Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2016, 1:21 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 9 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: Mar 8, 2016, 1:21 PM CST (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2016, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 8, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

As transmitted.

600 
WFUS54 KLCH 081921
TORLCH
LAC115-081930-
/O.NEW.KLCH.TO.W.0014.160308T1921Z-160308T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
121 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 130 PM CST
    
* AT 121 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF HORNBECK...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
  TOLEDO BEND DAM...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN VERNON PARISH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE
HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3127 9343 3122 9345 3121 9353 3122 9355
      3123 9354 3123 9355 3128 9353 3128 9343
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 189DEG 36KT 3128 9352 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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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
Mar 7, 8:38 PM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more	63 hr
Mar 8, 3:25 AM CST	Coastal Flood Warning	LCH	Cameron, Saint Martin	50 hr
Mar 8, 3:25 AM CST	Coastal Flood Advisory	LCH	Cameron, Saint Martin	69 hr
Mar 8, 3:34 AM CST	Gale Warning	LCH		48 hr
Mar 8, 5:07 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		67 hr
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	6 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	7 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	12 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	11 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	4 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	14 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	7 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	3 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion	4 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Vernon	8 days
Mar 8, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	33 days

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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.