Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2000, 4:41 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 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 21, 2000, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Reeves, 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1631 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 212142 SVRLCH LAC003-212230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 441 PM CDT MON AUG 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT... * AT 437 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OBERLIN...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LEBLANC BY 450 PM CDT... MITTIE BY 455 PM CDT... REEVES BY 510 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 21, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 201 PM CDT MON AUG 21 2000 THE NGM MODEL SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST SOLUTION FOR TONIGHT'S POPS. THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND PARISHES SEEM MOST LIKELY TO RECEIVE RAIN. THE PRIMARY PLAYER SEEMS TO BE THE TUTT LOW ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. THE AVN MODEL DEPICTS A WESTWARD PROPAGATION ACROSS TAMPICO MEXICO BY TUESDAY MORNING...WITH CONSEQUENT HIT AND MISS SHOWERS AND TSTMS FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. 21-TRARES .LCH... LA... TX...OZONE ACTION DAY ON TUESDAY TXZ201-215-216. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... LCH 076/095/075/093 4313 LFT 076/095/076/093 2313 AEX 073/097/072/096 3213 BPT 074/096/075/093 4313
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 21, 11:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
1137 AM CDT MON AUG 21 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 AM PECAN ISLAND LA WIND DAMAGE
08/21/00 VERMILION TREES DOWN ON ROADWAY
FNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Vernon | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.