Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1999, 3:22 PM CDT for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1999, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1999, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Erath, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
372 WUUS1 KLCH 062021 RRA SVRLCH GMZ455-LAC113-062120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 322 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VERMILION PARISH INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 420 PM CDT * AT 317 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABBEVILLE OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DELCAMBRE MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... DELCAMBRE BY 315 PM CDT ERATH BY 325 PM CDT HENRY BY 335 PM CDT ABBEVILLE BY 345 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES...COMPUTERS OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA/SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 207 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999 FORECAST NUMBERS CORRECTED... MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN MAINTAINING WEAKENING UPPER RIDGE AXES OVER THE LOCAL AREA THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. ETA APPARENTLY DEVELOPS AN ANOMALOUSLY STRONG SHORTWAVE IN SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER CENTRAL TEXAS MID-DAY TODAY SINCE THIS FEATURE IS ABSENT FROM AVN/NGM. ACCORDING TO AVN/NGM...MID/UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE WANDERING AROUND EASTERN GULF THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WITH AVN SHOWING AN OVERALL WEST DRIFT AND NGM SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. AT THE SURFACE...RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO EXTEND SOUTHWEST OR WEST OVER THE AREA. RELATIVELY DRY CONDITIONS ARE PROGGED THROUGH TUESDAY. NGM AND AVN APPEAR TO BE PRETTY SIMILAR SO NGM MOS OUTPUT SHOULD BE PRETTY GOOD WITH MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. APPEARS TO BE TOO DRY FOR SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH FORECAST PERIOD. WITH AVN DEPICTING UPPER LOW DRIFTING WEST TO SOUTH OF MOBILE BAY TUESDAY AND MOISTURE HIGHER EXTREME EAST PART OF AREA WILL CALL FOR CHANCE POPS EXTREME EAST PART TUESDAY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN ELSEWHERE MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOONS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. LCH BB 072/091 072/090 200202 LFT BB 070/091 070/090 200203 AEX BB 071/092 070/092 200-02 BPT BB 073/090 073/090 200-02
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.