Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2000, 4:59 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2000, 4:59 PM CST (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 5:05 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Sulphur, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 262300 SVRLCH LAC011-019-262345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 459 PM CST SAT FEB 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 451 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SULPHUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... GILLIS BY 505 PM CST RAGLEY BY 515 PM CST LONGVILLE BY 520 PM CST DRY CREEK BY 525 PM CST BUNDICK LAKE BY 530 PM C-ST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. 22
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 Feb 26, 2:20 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 2:20 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 220 PM CST SAT FEB 26 2000 CURRENTLY...PRE FRONTAL SURFACE TROF/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA FROM ALEXANDRIA TO LAKE CHARLES TO SABINE PASS. BEHIND THE TROF...NORTHWEST WINDS WITH TEMPS DROPPING INTO THE 60S. AHEAD OF THE TROF...TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S WITH STRONG SOUTH WINDS. SO FAR ON RADAR...LITTLE ROTATION SEEN WITH STORMS. HIGHEST WIND GUSTS SO FAR...37 KTS AT FORT POLK. CLEARING LINE IN EAST TEXAS FROM ROUGHLY TYLER TO VICTORIA MOVING EAST AT 30 KNOTS. AT UPPER LEVELS...STRONG VORT MAX OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA MOVING EAST. ON WATER VAPOR LOOP...JET MAX MOVING FROM CENTRAL TEXAS INTO EAST TEXAS. PROFILER DATA SHOWS 75 KT WINDS AT PALESTINE TX AND 65 KTS AT WINFIELD LA AT 500 MB. FORECAST PERIOD... TONIGHT...FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS EASTWARD WITH DRIER AIR QUICKLY MOVING IN BEHIND IT. WILL STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. WITH GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS PROGGED OVER THIS AREA...COULD SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. AT THIS POINT THOUGH...EXPECT SEVERE THREAT TO BE FURTHER EAST OF FORECAST AREA. WHEN FORECAST PERIOD STARTS AT 00Z (6PM LOCAL)...DRIER AIR SHOULD HAVE MOVED THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS. WILL LEAVE OUT POPS IN THIS AREA. NEXT QUESTION IS OVERNIGHT LOWS. DRIER AIR SEEMS TO BE MOVING IN QUICKER THAN GUIDANCE. WITH THIS IN MIND...WILL GO LOWER THAN MOS NUMBERS AND CLOSE TO WHAT PREVIOUS FORECAST HAS. SUNDAY...AS UPPER LEVEL TROF MOVES EAST OF FORECAST AREA...STRONG SUBSIDENCE WILL MOVE IN. SKIES SHOULD BE SUNNY AS MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 30 PERCENT. TEMPS WILL BE COOLER WITH WEAK COLD AIR ADVECTION ACROSS FORECAST AREA. BASICALLY FRONT WILL COOL TEMPS BACK TO NEAR SEASONABLE LEVELS. SUNDAY NIGHT...LOWS A LITTLE COOLER THAN TONIGHT AS HIGH SHOULD SETTLE IN. EXPECT MAX RADIATIONAL COOLING WITH LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES. MONDAY...CONTINUE DRY AND SUNNY. MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES EXPECTED TO CONTINUE BELOW 30 PERCENT. EXTENDED...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... AREA WILL BE UNDER INFLUENCE OF UPPER LEVEL RIDGE UNTIL WEDNESDAY. THEREFORE...DRY CONDITIONS WITH TEMPS MODERATING TO ABOVE NORMAL AGAIN. NEXT SYSTEM COULD BE CLOSE ENOUGH ON THURSDAY FOR A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. MARINE...WILL ISSUE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN WESTERN HALF. .LCH...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY HIGH ISLAND TO CAMERON TX...SCA GMZ450-470 LA...SCA GMZ450-470 7-RUA PRELIMS... AEX 42/67/38/70 4000 BPT 45/69/43/71 00001 LCH 46/69/42/71 2000 LFT 49/68/42/71 5000
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Saint Landry | 53 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.