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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 2000, 12:13 AM CST for Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Nov 6, 2000, 12:13 AM CST (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2000, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 060620 SVRLCH TXC199-457-060715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1213 AM CST MON NOV 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 115 AM CST * AT 1215 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF CHESTER TEXAS TO 30 MILES WEST OF SOUR LAKE TEXAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REMEMBER TORNADOES CAN AND DO FORM WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESTER BY 1230 AM CST... WOODVILLE AND BATSON BY 1245 AM CST... KOUNTZE AND SOUR LAKE BY 1 AM CST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS I N EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. KUYPER/RUA
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 Nov 5, 8:35 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 8:35 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 835 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 SQUALL LN OVR CNTRL TX THIS EVE MOVG TO THE EAST...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CST...FOR JASPER...HARDIN...AND TYLER COUNTIES IN SE TX... HAVE UPDATED ZONES. ALL THE INGREDIENTS COMING INTO PLAY THIS EVE AS STATIONARY FRNTL BOUNDARY DRAPED FROM CNTRL TX THRU CNTRL LA ALLOWING FOR MSTR POOLING SOUTH OF THIS BNDRY. LOW LVL JET...UPR LVL DYNAMIC'S AND REAR DRY PUNCH TO SUPPORT LN MOVMNT. SHWRS AND TSTMS CURRENTLY OVER SE TX AND SRN LA HAVE TAPERED OFF THIS EVE. ATTM... WILL HAVE A SMALL REST FM SHWRS/TSTMS IN ADV OF SQUALL LN EXPECTE D TO MOV INTO THE AREA OVRNGHT. .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... LCH 69/76/58/76 7600 LFT 68/75/59/75 5720 AEX 67/74/53/73 6710 BPT 69/77/57/76 8400
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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.