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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 2000, 1:22 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2000, 1:22 PM CST (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2000, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 211924 SVRLCH TXC241-351-212000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 122 PM CST TUE MAR 21 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 200 PM * AT 120 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HARRISBURY BY 130 PM BROWNDELL BY 140 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNINGf AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
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 21, 11:25 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 11:25 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1125 AM CST TUE MAR 21 2000 QUICK UPDATE... RADAR SHOWS A LITTLE MORE ACTIVITY THAN FIRST THOUGHT OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ALSO...CELLS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO BUMP UP POPS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ADD TO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. 7-RUA .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. UPDATED NUMBERS... AEX 75/55/78/58 2001 BPT 75/61/78/63 3011 LCH 75/60/78/62 2001 LFT 75/59/78/61 0001
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.