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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 23, 2000Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2000, 6:13 AM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 2000, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Hardin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2000-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2000-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

923 
WUUS54 KLCH 231114
SVRLCH
TXC199-231200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
613 AM CDT SUN APR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 612 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF SOUR LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BATSON BY 620 AM CDT
  SARATOGA BY 630 AM CDT
  SOUR LAKE BY 635 AM CDT
  KOUNTZE BY 650 AM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

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 Apr 23, 3:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST
DISCUSSION...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
230 AM CDT SUN APR 23 2000

WATCH / WARNING CODE CORRECTED TO NONE...

MODELS PROG UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS
MORNING AND MAINLY INTO MID-DAY AHEAD OF A WEAK AND WEAKENING UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH. THE TROUGH AXIS SHOULD MOVE EAST THROUGH THE FORECAST
AREA TONIGHT. WEAK TO MODERATE /STRONGER NORTH/ Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE
WILL SHIFT EAST ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AHEAD OF MID-LEVEL TROUGH
PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH EAST TEXAS THIS EVENING AND THROUGH EASTERN
EXTREMES OF THE AREA MONDAY MORNING. A MID-LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD
INTO THE AREA MONDAY. WEAK TO MODERATE LOW- TO MID-LEVEL LIFT /700 MB
OMEGA/ IS PROGGED FOR THE AREA TODAY TO DIMINISH TONIGHT. MEAN
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE PROGGED AT HIGH LEVELS NORTHERN HALF OF THE
AREA TODAY INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. BY EVENING DRIER AIR IS PROGGED OVER
THE AREA. IT WILL BE EVEN DRIER MONDAY. ETA PRODUCES SOME LIGHT RAIN
OVER ALL BUT THE EASTERN EXTREMES OF THE AREA THIS MORNING AND OVER
MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. NO RAIN IS PROGGED FOR TONIGHT AND
MONDAY.

MOISTURE APPEARS TO BE LACKING OVER THE SOUTH PART OF THE AREA TODAY.
THOUGH MOISTURE WILL BE HIGHER NORTH HALF...CURRENT RADAR TRENDS
INDICATE BROKEN TO NUMEROUS COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL PROBABLY BE NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. WILL CALL FOR 40
PERCENT CHANCE POPS NORTH TO 30 PERCENT SOUTH TODAY. TOO DRY FOR RAIN
TONIGHT OR MONDAY EXCEPT MAYBE EXTREME EAST THIS EVENING.

SPARKS

.LCH...NONE
LA...NONE.
TX...NONE.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
LCH 82/64/85/59 3--0
LFT 79/63/85/58 2=2-0
AEX 82/60/85/54 5--0
BPT 83/62/87/59 3--0

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 8:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Tyler67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.