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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:02 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | De Ridder, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
572 WUUS54 KLCH 022203 SVRLCH LAC011-022300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 455 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL BEAUREGARD PARISH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. 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 3089 9323 3069 9335 3052 9319 3078 9298
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 Aug 2, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 207 PM CDT WED AUG 2 2000 IT LUKS LIKE THE 500 MB TROF AXIS THAT IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA IS GOING NO PLACE FAST. 500 MB RIDGE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WITH NOTHING TO PUSH THE TROF TO THE EAST. SO WOULD SUSPECT THAT THE 500 MB TROF WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE FA THROUGH THE PD. WOULD EXPECT ACTIVITY SIMILAR TO TODAYS...WITH WIDELY SCATTERED-SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DOTTING THE AREA. WILL STAY FAIRLY CLOSE TO NGM MOS TEMPS. 10 .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... LCH 73/90/74/91 1312 LFT 72/90/73/90 1313 AEX 71/90/71/90 1312 BPT 73/91/74/91 1312
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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.