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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2000, 6:20 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2000, 6:20 AM CDT (11:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:24 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KLCH 021121
SVRLCH
TXC245-021215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
620 AM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 AM CDT
* AT 615 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SABINE PASS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
SEA RIM STATE PARK BY 645 AM CDT
PORT ARTHUR BY 705 AM CDT
GROVES...NEDERLAND...PORT NECHES BY 710 AM CDT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF ONE AND A HALF INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED.
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW!
VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE.
CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 2955 9451 2942 9437 2971 9388 2994 9391
3014 9414What 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 May 2, 2:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 AM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000 AN MCS HAS FLARED UP ALONG SFC BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDS FROM NEAR KPOE- KIAH-KLRD. ALSO ENHANCING THIS MCS IS A STRONG 500 MB SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. THIS AREA WILL SLOWLY DRIFT TO THE SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY. SPC HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR OUR SOUTHEAST TEXAS COUNTIES UNTIL 700 AM THIS MORNING. THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FAIRLY DECENT DURING THIS FORECAST PERIOD AS THE 500MB LOW CURRENTLY OVER THE TX PANHANDLE MOVES TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. LOOKS LIKE OUR BEST CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY WITH EXCELLENT UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE PROJECTED TO BE RIGHT OVER THE AREA AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. HOWEVER... THERE WILL NOT BE ANY REAL SFC BOUNDARY TO FOCUS THE ACTIVITY EXCEPT FOR OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD BE SIGNIFICANT DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD WITH 2 TO 4 INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE...MAINLY DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN THE FORECAST. I AM BASING MY FORECAST ON A BLEND OF THE ETA AND AVN MODELS. 10 LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... LCH 80/64/79/67 7776 LFT 83/64/79/66 5577 AEX 83/62/78/63 7576 BPT 80/65/79/67 8776
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 2, 3:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-021500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 357 AM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000 ...HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL AID IN THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY...TONIGHT...AND WEDNESDAY. THE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE DUE TO THE SLOW MOTION OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE A POSSIBILITY...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVER THE ROAD. ALL INTERESTS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LCH. 22
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 68 min |
| May 2, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 23 min |
| May 2, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.