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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2000, 2:18 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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 22, 2000, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 2112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
447 WUUS54 KLCH 221918 SVRLCH LAC023-222015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 218 PM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 216 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL CAMERON PARISH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HACKBERRY BY 245 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 22, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1010 AM CDT TUE AUG 22 2000 CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE CAROLINAS RIDGING ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF...PROVIDING AN EASTERLY TO NORTHEASTERLY FLOW OVER THE FORECAST AREA NOW. THIS WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO A SOUTHEAST DIRECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH THIS WORDING WILL BE ADDED TO ALL ZONES. TEMPS LOOK ON TRACK. 88D AND SAT CONTINUE TO SHOW MOST TSRA ACTIVITY OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...BUT AS OF THIS WRITING...BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE COASTAL PARISHES AND COUNTIES. THIS WILL PUSH INLAND AS THE SFC WINDS BECOMES SOUTHEAST AND PUSHES THE SEABREEZE INLAND. WILL WORD 40% SOUTHERN ZONES AND 30% INLAND SE TX/C LA REGION. AGREE WITH PREVIOUS SHIFT WITH CURRENT INSTABILITY... MOISTURE AVAILABILITY...AND MID/UPPER 90S AFTERNOON TEMPS...SOME TSRA MAY POP TO SEVERE LIMITS. UPDATED ZONES TO FOLLOW. 8 ;.LCH... LA...NONE TX...OZONE ACTION DAY TODAY TXZ201-215-216. .UPDATED NUMBERS... AEX 97/72/96/71 313- BPT 96/75/93/73 413- LCH 94/74/93/73 413- LFT 95/74/93/73 413-
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Jefferson Davis | 63 min |
| Aug 22, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 65 min |
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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.