Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.