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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 23, 2000Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 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 23, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 231827
SVRLCH
LAC055-231915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
126 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 121 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25
  MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SCOTT BY 135 PM

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEAT2HER 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 23, 10:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 10:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1005 AM CDT WED AUG 23 2000

CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO RIDGE HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE
CAROLINAS OVER THE REGION...KEEPING AN EAST TO SOUTHEASTLY FLOW
OVER THE AREA. 88D SHOWS SCT CONVECTION ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS
OFF OF LA/TX AND INLAND ACROSS SE TX NORTH OF BPT. 12Z LCH SOUNDING
SHOWS HIGHER PW (1.91) THAN YESTERDAY...WITH CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE
FROM 600 TO 500MB. LIX SOUNDING HAS HIGHER PW (2.18). BOTH SOUNDINGS
HAVE AMPLE CAPE (LCH=4291 J/KG AND LIX=3178 J/KG). WITH THIS IN MIND
AND AMPLE DAYTIME HEATING...SCT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE OFFSHORE AND GRADUALLY DEVELOP WITH BETTER COVERAGE ACROSS
INLAND AREAS THIS AFTERNOON. A STORM OR TWO MAY REACH SEVERE
LIMITS BY THE END OF THE AFTERNOON...BUT NOT ENOUGH TO WARRANT
WIDESPREAD MENTION. POPS IN ZONES (30% N AND 40% S) LOOKS GOOD.
TEMPS LOOK GOOD. WINDS LOOK GOOD AS WELL.

8

.LCH...
LA...NONE.
TX...NONE.

.UPDATED NUMBERS...
AEX 97/73/98/68 312-
BPT 93/75/94/73 4232
LCH 92/72/91/72 4231
LFT 93/72/93/72 4131

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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.