Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 11, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Moss Bluff, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 112201 SVRLCH LAC019-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 500 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOSS BLUFF...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LEBLEU SETTLEMENT...MOSS BLUFF BY 510 PM CDT WESTLAKE BY 525 PM CDT LAKE CHARLES BY 530 PM 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 Aug 11, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 300 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2000 CURRENTLY... 88-D LCH HAS ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. STORM MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE SOUTHWEST UNDER RDG PAT. IN THE GULF...A FEW STORMS ARE LINGERING BEYOND 60 NM FROM SHORE... LTL MOVEMENT NOTED. IN ADDITION...SLOW MOVG FRNTL SYS TO THE NORTH HARD TO FIND THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT...MSTR POOLING... INSTABILITY... FORCING TO ALLOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONT INTO THE EVENING HOURS. GUID TEMPS ABOUT RIGHT WITH SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. A FEW STORMS POSSIBLY SEVERE. DRIER AIR LOOKS TO FILTER INTO THE AREA TOMORROW ALTHOUGH WILL SEE A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. TEMPS INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S. SUNDAY... SHAPING UP NICELY AS FRNT/TROUGH MOVES DOWN ALONG CST AS DRIER AIR CONTS TO ADVECT INTO THE AREA. .LCH... LA...NONE TX...OZONE ACTION DAY FOR SATURDAY TXZ201-215-216- PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 73/98/73/96 3200 BPT 75/98/75/97 4200 LCH 74/96/73/94 4200 LFT 74/96/73/94 4200 K. KUYPER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 11, 4:22 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
422 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM DRY CREEK LA WIND DAMAGE
08/11/00 BEAUREGARD POWER LINES DOWN TREE
BRANCHES ON ROAD ROOF
DAMAGE
_The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 60 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.