Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2000, 2:33 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 18, 2000, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Acadia Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Branch, 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 182034 SVRLCH LAC001-182115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 233 PM CST SAT MAR 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 227 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHURCH POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MIRE BY 240 PM CST SUNSET BY 255 PM CST THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL WHICH COULD CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3034 9245 3021 9231 3041 9204 3053 9231
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 12:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 1:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 59 min |
| Mar 18, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.