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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 5:41 PM CDT for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2000, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 162243 SVRLCH LAC113-162345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 541 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL VERMILION PARISH...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... GUEYDAN BY 630 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REP?ORT 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 16, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 220 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2000 KLCH/KPOE 88D SHOW RW/TRW POPPING UP NW-SE IN NRN FCST AREA ALONG MOISTURE AXIS. NOTHING HAPPENING YET ALONG THE SEA BREEZE WHICH IS BEING SHUNTED ALONG THE CST W/ NRLY LO-LVL FLOW. WILL TAKE A FINAL LOOK NEAR PRESS TIME TO DECIDE ON EVE POPS. CONTINUATION OF HOT DRY WX IN STORE AS HI PRES REMAINS IN CONTROL ALF. THE HI NOW CENTERED OVER THE SWRN MO VALLEY WILL BUILD SWRD & SPREAD WWRD THRU THE PERIOD. SIG S/WVS WILL PASS S OF AREA AS RIDGE AXIS DROPS TO NRN LA/NERN TX BY END OF PERIOD. MEANWHILE SFC HI PRES REMAINS CENTERED OVER THE NWRN GULF. MODEL PWATS & MEAN RHS DROP THRU THU NGT BEFORE STARTING A REBOUND FRI. MAIN FOCUS FOR CONV- ECTION WILL AGAIN BE THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY. ADEQUATE INSTABILITY/ ENERGY AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT AN ISOLATED MENTION FOR SRN-MOST ZONES. WILL DECIDE ON NRN-MOST ZONES NEARER PRESS TIME. CONTINUED HOT W/ H8 TEMPS RUNNING 20/22C. OUTSIDE OF THE 99 FOR BPT THU...FWC TEMPS LOOK FINE THIS FCST. UPR HI BEGINS TO PUSH W BY END OF EXTENDED...ALLOWING A VORT TO PASS JUST E OF THE FCST AREA. DISSIPATING FNTL BOUNDARY IN ASSOCIATION W/ THIS FEATURE TO DROP TO THE CST BY MON. WILL ALLOW FOR ISOLATED SEA BREEZE TRW INTO SUN THEN GO W/ CHC POPS MON W/ ADDITION OF THE VORT/FNT. .LCH...NONE. LA...NONE. TX...OZONE ACTION DAY THU TXZ201-215-216. .PRELIM NUMBERS... BPT 74/96/75/95 11-1 LCH 75/97/74/96 11-1 LFT 75/96/75/95 11-1 AEX 74/99/74/97 1-01 LGE
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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.