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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 3:04 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 3:04 AM CST (09:04 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 3:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	De Ridder, 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 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 080904
SVRLCH
LAC011-115-081000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
  BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 400 AM CST

* AT 300 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSEPINE TO 2 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF DE RIDDER TO 11 MILES WEST OF RAGLEY...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LONGVILLE...NEW LLANO...PICKERING...RAGLEY BY 315 AM CST
  FORT POLK BY 320 AM CST
  BUNDICK LAKE BY 325 AM CST
  DRY CREEK BY 330 AM CST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED.

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 THE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3104 9351 3051 9352 3053 9335 3043 9336
          3044 9317 3062 9317 3064 9302 3121 9304

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, 3:04 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:04 AM CST, 0 minutes before

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

THE MSAS ANLYS DEPICTS A WRMFNT EXTENDING THRU BUNKIE TO JUST SOUTH
OF BEAUMONT. A WAVE CYCLONE IS EXPECTED TO FORM ON THE FNTL INTERFACE
TODAY. DEEP LAYER SHEAR PARALLEL TO FNT...WEAK CAP...INCREASING
FNTL CONVERGENCE ALL SUGGEST TSTMS ORGANIZING IN LINES. ANOTHER
PROBLEM IS WDSPRD HEAVY RAFL...AMOUNTS BTN 5 AND 7 INCHES EXPECTED.
WITH THIS IN MIND...I HAVE ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...AND SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

CDFNT WILL BULLDOZE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...USHERING IN MUCH
COOLER AND DRIER AIR.

VERY BUSY AT THIS TIME...

21-TRARES

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

PRELIM NUMBERS...
LCH 78/50/58/42 8800
LFT 78/52/60/45 8820
AEX 75/47/53/42 8800
BPT 77/48/58/45 8800

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 1:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	53 min
Nov 8, 2:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	43 min
Nov 8, 3:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	67 min
Nov 8, 5:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	63 min
Nov 8, 11:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	67 min
Nov 8, 12:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	58 min
Nov 8, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	62 min
Nov 8, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	63 min
Nov 8, 3:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	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.