Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2000, 5:17 AM CST for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2000, 5:17 AM CST (11:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2000, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 271118 SVRLCH LAC023-271215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 517 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 615 AM CST * AT 514 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMERON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HACKBERRY BY 535 AM CST CAMERON BY 600 AM CST DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW! VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES ARE NOT SAFE. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
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 27, 3:25 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 3:25 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 325 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000 UPPER LEVEL TROF EXTENDING FROM GREAT LAKES AREA SOUTHWEST TO OKLAHOMA DROPPING QUICKLY TO THE SOUTH. AREA OF GOOD DIFFULENCE SEEN OVER EXTREME EAST TEXAS AND LOUISIANA ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. SURFACE COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 40S BACK IN OKLAHOMA. RADAR SHOWS SQUALL LINE FROM EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CURVING BACK INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS. 46 KT WIND GUST RECORDED AT AEX AT 140 AM LOCAL. REPORTS OF TREES DOWN IN RAPIDES PARISH. FORECAST PERIOD... TODAY...UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WILL MOVE QUICKLY OFF TO THE EAST DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO FORECAST AREA SHORTLY AFTER 12Z AND EXIT BY 18Z. DRIER AIR AND STRONG SUBSIDENCE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL ALLOW SKIES TO CLEAR. WITH MAX SUNSHINE DURING THE AFTERNOON SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME COLD AIR ADVECTION AND ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM INTO THE UPPER 70S. TONIGHT... HIGH PRESSURE TO SETTLE ACROSS THE AREA. WITH WINDS RELAXING DURING THE NIGHT AND CLEAR SKIES SHOULD SEE MAX RADIATIONAL COOLING. TUESDAY... HIGH SHIFTS EAST OF THE AREA WITH SE FLOW RETURNING GRADUALLY FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE DAY. EXTENDED...WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPS ACROSS THE AREA. SERIES OF VORT MAXES IN THE FLOW TO MOVE ACROSS. THEREFORE...WILL MENTION CHANCE FOR SHOWERS EACH DAY. .LCH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INLAND SE TX...C AND S LA. LA...SVA LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055 UNTIL 14Z. TX...SVA TXZ180>182 UNTIL 10Z. 7-RUA PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 78/46/80/53 5001 BPT 79/52/79/58 4001 LCH 79/49/79/57 6001 LFT 78/50/80/55 7001
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 27, 2:03 AM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
203 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
140 AM ALEXANDRIA LA ONE INCH HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
03/27/00 RAPIDES
0207 AM ALEXANDRIA LA WIND DAMAGE
03/27/00 RAPIDES TREES REPORTED DOWN ACROSS
ROADS AND ON ONE
HOME.
KGKLocal storm report, Mar 27, 2:03 AM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
203 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
140 AM ALEXANDRIA LA ONE INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
03/27/00 RAPIDES SHERIFF'S OFFICE
145 AM ALEXANDRIA LA WIND DAMAGE
03/27/00 RAPIDES TREES REPORTED DOWN
ACROSS ROADS AND ON ONE
HOME.
KGKLocal storm report, Mar 27, 2:46 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
246 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 AM ALEXANDRIA LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/27/00 RAPIDES
0145 AM ALEXANDRIA LA WIND DAMAGE
03/27/00 RAPIDES TREES REPORTED DOWN ACROSS
ROADS AND ONTO ONE
HOME
KGKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 3:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.