Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:10 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Cameron, LA | |
| Mar 19, 8:20 AM CST | Hail 1 | Creole, 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.
- 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
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.
LSLocal 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.
LSThe 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 | Allen, Rapides, Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 5:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 68 min |
| Mar 19, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.