Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Welsh, 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
341 WUUS54 KLCH 302256 SVRLCH LAC001-053-310000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 556 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF JENNINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... JENNINGS BY 610 PM CDT MERMENTAU BY 620 PM CDT ESTHERWOOD...IOTA BY 635 PM CDT CROWLEY BY 645 PM CDT BASILE BY 650 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW VEHICLES AND MOBIL HOMES ARE NOT SAFE. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3033 9295 3015 9292 3017 9232 3045 9236
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 30, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 2000 FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY STALLED FROM W. KY SOUTHWEST INTO EXTREME NW LA THEN INTO CENTRAL TX. TSTM ACTIVITY ACROSS CNTRL AND S LA HAS SLOWLY DIMINISHED WHILE COASTAL WATERS AND ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY...ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO DEVELOP. AT 18Z...MODELS INITIALIZED A LITTLE SLOW ON H5 LOW..DEPICTED OVR NE IL BUT MORE LIKE W CNTRL MI. TROF AXIS THEN EXTENDS INTO NE TX. ETA MODEL APPEARS TO HANDLE FRONTAL POSITION THE BEST. MORNING SOUNDING DATA SHOWED PRECIPITABLE H2O VALUES RANGING FROM 1.7 TO NEAR 2 SOUTH OF BOUNDARY. OVER THE NEXT 48HRS...EXPECT COLD FRONT TO WASH OUT...GENERALLY IN ITS CURRENT POSITION. H5 LOW OVR W MI WILL FILL LEAVING TROF GENERALLY IN CURRENT POSITION. DEEP MOISTURE AXIS WILL MOVE SOUTH AND EAST...EXTENDING FROM EAST LA WEST ACROSS COASTAL WATER LATE MONDAY. PRECIPITABLE WATER IS FORECAST TO DECREASE ACROSS INTERIOR SE TX AND CENTRAL LA TONIGHT THROUGH MON. SOME INCREASE TUE. ALONG THE COAST...SOME DRYING OCCURS MONDAY NIGHT...HOWEVER H7 TROF MOVES INTO THE AREA TUESDAY WHICH INCREASES CHANCES FOR PCPN ACROSS COASTAL SE TX AND S LA. PLENTY OF CAPPING INDICATED IN FORECAST SOUNDINGS ACROSS INTERIOR SE TX WHICH WILL DAMPEN THE EFFECTS OF TROF. TONIGHT...WILL KEEP WIDELY SCATTERED WORDING FOR CWA TONIGHT. MOS TEMPERATURES APPEAR REASONABLE. MONDAY...HAVE LITTLE MORE CONFIDENCE IN ETA DEPICTION FOR MONDAY. WILL DECREASE POPS SLIGHTLY BELOW MOS FOR THE LCH AREA... LOWERING TO 30 PERCENT AEX AND LEAVE BPT ALONE. APPEARS THAT THE BRUNT OF THE ACTIVITY WILL INITIATE ACROSS SW LA DURING THE MORNING THEN SHIFT EASTWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON...ACTIVITY HANGS WITH MOIST AXIS. TEMPS APPEAR REASONABLE...HOWEVER UP A FEW DEGREES FOR LCH/BPT AND AEX. MONDAY NIGHT...MOIST AXIS ALL BUT GONE FROM AREA. SEE NO PROBLEM WITH MOS LOWS. TUE...EXPECT H7 TROF TO MOVE THROUGH AREA BRINGING SCATTERED CONVECTION ACROSS S LA AND COASTAL SE TX. SOME INTERACTION WITH SEABREEZE POSSIBLE AS IT WORKS INLAND. 16/15 .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... LCH 73/91/72/9-0 2414 LFT 74/89/73/92 2514 AEX 72/91/71/90 2312 BPT 74/92/73/91 2413
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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.