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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 19, 2000Cameron Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 8:02 AM CST for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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 19, 2000, 8:02 AM CST (14:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 2000, 9:00 AM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cameron Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 19, 8:10 AM CSTHail 0.75Cameron, LA
Mar 19, 8:20 AM CSTHail 1Creole, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 680 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 191403
SVRLCH
LAC023-191500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
802 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 900 AM CST

* AT 800 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RUTHERFORD BEACH BY 820 AM CST...
  CREOLE BY 825 AM CST...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

ALSO...TORNADOES DO FORM WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

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

LAT...LON 2985 9347 2967 9340 2986 9264 3003 9268

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, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 4:11 AM CST, 3 hours 51 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 19, 6:30 AM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
630 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 AM    WESTLAKE                  LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   CALCASIEU                      THUNDERSTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          DOWN TREE ACROSS POWER
                                          LINES. POWER WAS
                                          KNOCKED OUT.

0542 AM    MOSS BLUFF                LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   CALCASIEU                      THUNDERESTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          DOWN LARGE PINE TREE AT
                                          NORTH PERKINS FERRY
                                          ROAD.

0520 AM    SULPHUR                   LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   CALCASIEU                      THUNDERSTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          DOWN LARGE TREE LIMB NEAR
                                          POST OAK ROAD AND
                                          MAPLEWOOD STREET.

LS
Local storm report, Mar 19, 8:02 AM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
802 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 AM    DE RIDDER                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   BEAUREGARD                     THUNDERSTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          TREE ACROSS HIGHWAY 171.

0545 AM    DE RIDDER                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   BEAUREGARD                     THUNDERSTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          TREES DOWN AND DAMAGED
                                          POWER LINES AND
                                          TRANSFORMERS AT
                                          PUMPKIN LOOP ROAD.

0610 AM    DE RIDDER                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   BEAUREGARD                     THUNDERSTORM WINDS BLEW
                                          DOWN TREE AND DAMAGED
                                          POWER LINES AT RALPH
                                          BUSHNELL ROAD.

0545 AM    DEQUINCY                  LA   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/00   CALCASIEU                      THUNDERTORM` WINDS DOWNED
                                          TREES AND BENT ROAD
                                          SIGN AROUND POLE.

LS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 5:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Rapides, Vernon62 min
Mar 19, 5:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis62 min
Mar 19, 7:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis68 min
Mar 19, 8:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Landry55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.