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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 2000, 3:36 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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 21, 2000, 3:36 PM CST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 3:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Elmer, 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 212137 SVRLCH LAC079-212230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 336 PM CST TUE MAR 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 332 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WOODWORTH BY 345 PM CST... ALEXANDRIA BY 355 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 3115 9276 3103 9261 3134 9224 3141 9280
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, 2:45 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 2:45 PM CST, 51 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CST TUE MAR 21 2000 MOISTURE BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO LIFT NORTH ACROSS THE AREA WITH MID 50 DEWPOINTS AS FAR NORTH AS FORT POLK (KPOE). UPPER LOW OVER ARIZONA DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH. VORT MAXES EJECTING NORTHEAST FROM SYSTEM. FIRST ONE CURRENTLY OVER FORECAST AREA HELPING PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. QUARTER SIZE (1 INCH) HAIL REPORTED NEAR WOODVILLE IN TYLER COUNTY. NEXT VORT MAX SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY OVER WESTERN MEXICO. FORECAST PERIOD... TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY... UPPER LOW HANGS AROUND SOUTHWEST US. NEXT VORT MAX SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE DAYBREAK AND EXIT DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. BELIEVE RIDGE WILL HOLD IN THE EASTERN PORTION. THEREFORE WILL HAVE A GRADUAL DECREASE IN POPS FROM WEST TO EAST. A FEW STORMS COULD AGAIN HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL. TEMPS CLOSE TO MOS GUIDANCE. WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...UPPER LOW EXPECTED TO FINALLY KICK OFF TO THE NORTHEAST INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. BEST DYNAMICS LIFT TO THE NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. STILL BELIEVE ENOUGH LIFT AND MOISTURE ACROSS AREA TO HAVE CHANCE POPS...AGAIN HIGHEST PROBABILITY OVER THE LAKES AREA. TEMPS AGAIN CLOSE TO MOS GUIDANCE. EXTENDED... FRIDAY THRU SUNDAY... LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND WEAKEN. WILL NOT MENTION ANY POPS DURING THIS PERIOD.y TEMPS CONTINUE TO BE WARM. 7-RUA .LCH... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 53/77/58/76 1213 BPT 63/76/64/76 3323 LCH 61/76/63/76 1213 LFT 58/76/60/77 1112
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 21, 1:47 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
147 PM CST TUE MAR 21 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM 3 W WOODVILLE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/21/00 TYLER REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER
0143 PM 5 W WOODVILLE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/21/00 TYLER REPORTED BY PUBLIC
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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.