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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 8, 2000Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 5:27 AM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 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, 5:27 AM CST (11:27 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 6:30 AM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Avoyelles Parish, LA

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

914 
WUUS54 KLCH 081127
SVRLCH
LAC009-081230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 526 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF MARKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 55 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BORDELONVILLE...SIMMESPORT BY 535 AM CST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE 
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERRS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL 
RAIN.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3131 9221 3088 9221 3087 9183 3102 9181
          3120 9174 3128 9190 3119 9197 3132 9205

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, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:04 AM CST, 2 hours 23 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, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	56 min
Nov 8, 3:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	67 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

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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.