Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 2:26 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mauriceville, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 2253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 231926 SVRLCH TXC361-232030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 226 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORANGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MAURICEVILLE BY 235 PM BRIDGE CITY...ORANGE BY 300 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. b 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 23, 1:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 104 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FIRE SOUTH OF BOUNDARY WHICH REMAINS JUST NORTH OF CWA EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA INTO EAST TEXAS. GOOD DEW POINT DISCONTINUITY WITH MID 60S JUST NORTH OF FRONT... LOW 70S SOUTH. ETA DROPS FRONT TO COAST AROUND MIDNIGHT AS VORT MAX DIGS SE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THIS FEATURE CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST WITH SURFACE FRONT MOVING INTO GULF AND DISSIPATING. WILL USE FRONTAL PASSAGE AS TIMING FOR ENDING OF PRECIPITATION AS MUCH DRIER AIR AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT BUILDS INTO THE REGION. LONG WAVE TROF AXIS SHIFTS JUST EAST OF THE CWA AND BECOMES QUASI STATIONARY. THIS WILL PROVIDE A DRY NORTHERLY FLOW AND A RAIN-FREE FORECAST THROUGH TUESDAY DESPITE ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DROPPING SOUTHEAST THROUGH BACK SIDE OF TROF. WILL REINTRODUCE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WED AS MRF RETROGRADES LONGWAVE TROF AND DEVELOPS 5H LOW OVER NORTH-CENTRAL GULF. 23...MARCOTTE .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... BPT 72/92/70/91 4000 LCH 72/92/70/91 5000 LFT 70/91/68/89 6000 AEX 65/87/63/87 3000
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 9:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
944 AM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 AM PALMETTO LA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/00 ST. LANDRY TREES BLOWN DOWN...RPT BY
RADIO STATION IN OPELOUSAS
R. ERICKSONLocal storm report, Jul 23, 1:30 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
130 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0125 PM LONGVILLE LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/23/00 BEAUREGARD RPT BY SHERIFF DEPT
R. ERICKSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.