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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 1:24 AM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 10, 2000, 1:24 AM CDT (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:26 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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 100625 SVRLCH TXC457-100730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 124 AM CDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 114 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF COLMESNEIL...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. *THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESTER BY 140 AM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING; VERY LARGE HAIL WHICH COULD CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3098 9430 3099 9460 3079 9457 3078 9419
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 May 9, 8:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 8:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 828 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THUNDERSTORMS FIRED UP ALONG SFC FRONT THAT IS NEAR A KMEM-KSHV-KJCT LINE THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT MAKING MUCH HEADWAY TO THE SOUTH AND SHOULD WEAKEN WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. HOWEVER...I WILL KEEP 20% POPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE REST OF THE FORECAST LUKS GUD. 10 10 .LCH... LA...NONE TX...NONE .PREVIOUS NUMBERS... AEX 66/88/65/89 0000 BPT 71/85/71/87 0000 LCH 70/86/71/87 0000 LFT 68/87/68/88 0000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.