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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 6:10 AM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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
- Apr 2, 2000, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Apr 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 AM CST SUN APR 2 2000 SHWRS AND TSTMS WITH SVRL CELLS SPLITTING AND VILS AROUND 60 IN STORMS TO THE WEST. ALL INGREDIENTS IN PLACE FOR A HEAVY RAIN/SVR TSTM EVENT. STORM MOVEMENT TO THE NORTHWEST. CAPE TONIGHT ABT 3000(J/KG)...HELICITY 215 (M/S)... AND PRECIP WATER AROUND 1.74 INCHES. NEW WATCH TO BE ISSUED WILL COVER SEVERAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LA. AS A RESULT...RAIN COOLED ENVIRONMENT WILL HOLD TEMPS IN CHECK. PRES GRAD TO REMAIN STRONG AND HAVE PUT IN CAUTION ADVISED ON AREA LAKES TODAY. TONIGHT SHWRS AND TSTMS CONTG WITH AREAS OF PATCHY DENSE FOG. FINALLY ON MONDAY STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES DOWN INTO SE TX AND SOUTHERN LA SKIES CLRG. THIS LOOKS TO BRING TEMPS BELOW CLIMO NORMS THROUGH MID-WEEK... INTERESTING MARINE INTEREST...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. .LCH...NONE. TX...NONE. LA...NONE. UPDATED NUMBERS... LCH 77/68/73/ 997 BPT 75/67/74/ 997 LFT 82/66/73/ 677 AEX 77/66/70/ 997 K. KUYPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 68 min |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Saint Landry | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 59 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.