Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2000, 8:08 AM CDT for Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 23, 2000, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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 23, 8:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Votaw, TX | |
| Apr 23, 8:25 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Village Mills, TX |
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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
327 WUUS54 KLCH 231309 SVRLCH TXC199-457-231415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 808 AM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 804 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES WEST OF KOUNTZE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WARREN...WILDWOOD BY 825 AM CDT HILLISTER...IVANHOE BY 830 AM CDT FRED BY 840 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, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 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, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.