Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 2:25 AM CDT for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 23, 2000, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmetto, LA |
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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
033 WUUS54 KLCH 230725 SVRLCH LAC097-230830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 225 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 220 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL ST. LANDRY PARISH..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... PALMETTO BY 230 AM CDT KROTZ SPRINGS BY 305 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 Jul 22, 8:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 8:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 830 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 A WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE CENTRAL HALF OF THE CWA CONTINUES TO PRODUCE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. EXPECT ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENT TO DIE OFF BEFORE MIDNIGHT. A WEAK FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTH INTO THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA TONIGHT AND WILL LIKELY TRIGGER A FEW MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS STRONG DAYTIME HEATING AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COME TOGETHER. TEMPS WILL BE IN THE USUAL RANGE OF LOW TO MID 70S. WILL REMOVE POPS NORTH SINCE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS DRIED OUT THE LOWER LEVELS AND APPARENT AP IN RADAR IMAGERY POINTS TOWARDS SOME STABILITY NOW ACROSS THAT AREA. WILL ADD ISOLATED POP WORDING SOUTH DUE TO CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT. 06 .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...OZONE ACTION DAY SUNDAY-JEFFERSON/ORANGE/HARDIN CO. .PRELIM NUMBERS... BPT 75/95/75/93 1323 LCH 74/95/75/93 1323 LFT 74/95/75/93 1323 AEX 74/98/72/95 2323
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 63 min |
| Jul 23, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.