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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:50 AM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 1:50 AM CST (07:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 2:30 AM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jasper 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 8, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 080750
SVRLCH
TXC241-080830-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
150 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CST

* AT 143 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EVADALE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVADALE BY 155 AM CST
  GIST BY 200 AM CST
  BUNA BY 205 AM CST

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

DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW! VEHICLES AND
MOBIL HOMES ARE NOT SAFE.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO T]HE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3050 9406 3026 9409 3025 9391 3064 9389
          3066 9405

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 8, 12:12 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 12:12 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1212 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL
SOUTHEAST TEXAS... AND SOUTHWEST...WEST CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL
LOUISIANA. THE TORNADO WATCH DOES INCLUDE THE LAFAYETTE AREA.

THE TORNADO WATCH 783 IS VALID TIL 6 AM CST.

I ALSO RAISED THE OVERNIGHT MINIMUMS IN THE FIRST PERIOD...TO BE
REFLECT THE ONGOING WARM AIR ADVECTION ACROSS THE FCST AREA.

21-TRARES

.LCH...SCA FROM HIGH ISLAND TO THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER OUT 60NM.
LA...NONE
TX...NONE

ADJUSTED NUMBERS...
LCH 72/75/57/64 8884
LFT 72/75/57/64 6884
AEX 58/68/52/60 8884
BPT 65/73/52/61 8882

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 12:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	45 min
Nov 8, 1:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	59 min
Nov 8, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	44 min
Nov 8, 2:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	43 min
Nov 8, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	57 min
Nov 8, 11:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.