Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 6:30 PM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 6:30 PM CST (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 110032 SVRLCH LAC097-110130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 630 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 630 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PALMETTO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MELVILLE BY 640 PM PORT BARRE...KROTZ SPRINGS BY 650 PM 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. LAT...LON 3083 9178 3072 9212 3048 9197 3048 9165
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 Mar 10, 2:56 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 2:56 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 256 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 MODELS INDICATE UPPER DIVERGENT PATTERN WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND MOVE EAST OF...OR WEAKEN OVER...THE EASTERN EXTREMES OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. MID AND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS SHOULD BE OVER THE LOCAL AREA AT MID-DAY SATURDAY. AHEAD OF THIS TROUGH...700-300 MB Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE WILL BE INCREASING EXTREME NORTHWEST BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT WITH A MODERATE TO STRONG Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE RIDGE MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA TONIGHT INTO MID-DAY SATURDAY WEAKENING OVER THE EAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AREA OF STRONG UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES /OMEGA/ WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN PARTS OF THE AREA THIS EVENING...MOVE OVER THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT HOURS AND BE WEAKENING AND EXITING THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. STRONGEST MID AND UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITY IS PROGGED TO BE MAINLY ALONG AND BEHIND THE SURFACE FRONT. THE SURFACE COLD FRONT IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST EXTREMES OF THE AREA THIS EVENING AND MOVE OUT TO THE EAST SATURDAY MORNING. MODELS INDICATE THAT THERE WILL BE HIGH MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE LOCAL AREA SATURDAY. MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY PROGS SHOW CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT MOVING EAST OVER THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA TONIGHT WITH MOISTURE THINNER AND MAINLY BEHIND FRONT SOUTH PART. MODERATE TO HIGH MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES SHOULD LINGER OVER EASTERN PARTS OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING BUT DRY AIR IS PROGGED FOR THE ENTIRE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE BETTER IN HIGHER INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE NORTH PART. WILL KEEP POPS IN LIKELY CATEGORY NORTH PART AND HAVE MAINLY CHANCE POPS SOUTH PART FOR TONIGHT. WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS CENTRAL AND CHANCE POPS EAST FOR SATURDAY MORNING IN HIGHER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY BEHIND FRONT. NGM MOS TEMPERATURES LOOK ABOUT RIGHT. .LCH...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CAMERON LOUISIANA TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS LA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZZ450-470 TX...SMALL_ CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ450-470 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BPT 55/65/43/66 6000 LCH 54/63/40/66 5200 LFT 54/61/40/63 4200 AEX 52/59/38/64 8300
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 10, 4:08 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
408 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....!
0400 PM LEESVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON ESTIMATED WIND GUST TO 60
MPHLocal storm report, Mar 10, 4:34 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
434 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0434 PM PINEVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
03/10/00 RAPIDES TREES DOWN AND HOUSES
DAMAGED.
0310 PM NEW LLANO LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
0315 PM FORT POLK LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON
0400 PM 1/4 MILE EAST LEESVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON ] ESTIMATED WINDS OF 60 MPH.Local storm report, Mar 10, 5:06 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
506 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM PINEVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 RAPIDES
0453 PM 10 W FORT POLK LA TORNADO
03/10/00 VERNON FROM TIGER LZLocal storm report, Mar 10, 5:56 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
556 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM CHESTER TX WIND DAMAGE
03/10/00 TYLER TREES BLOWN DOWN ON HWY
256...RPT BY SHERIFF
RELocal storm report, Mar 10, 6:05 PM CST, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
605 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM MARKSVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
03/10/00 AVOYELLES NUMEROUS TREES DOWN TREE
ON HOUSELocal storm report, Mar 10, 6:24 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
624 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM JASPER TX WIND DAMAGE
03/10/00 JASPER NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
THE CITY. RPT BY
SHERIFF.
R?EThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 63 min |
| Mar 11, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.