Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 4:50 AM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 19, 2000, 4:50 AM CST (10:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2000, 5:20 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 191052 SVRLCH TXC241-351-191115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 450 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 520 AM CST * AT 450 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIRBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BON WEIR BY 505 AM CST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE 4EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW! VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3078 9403 3060 9401 3061 9365 3084 9368
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 Mar 19, 4:11 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 4:11 AM CST, 39 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 411 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 SHOWERS AND TSTMS HOLDING TOGETHER AS RADAR AND STLT SHOWS ACTIVITY PROPAGATING RAPIDLY EASTWARD AT 50 KTS. WELL RAISE THE STAKES ON POPS ACCORDINGLY AS VIGOROUS VORT CTR APPROACHES. PCPN MAINLY MORNING FOR ALL XCPT CEN AND S CEN LA. 11 .LCH... LA...NONE TX...NONE .UPDATED NUMBERS... BPT 67/45/[74/51 3000 LCH 66/45/74/49 3000 LFT 64/49/75/48 5000 AEX 63/45/71/48 4000
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.