Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 4:14 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2000, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:45 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Pineville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 102219 SVRLCH LAC079-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 414 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 412 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN RAPIDES PARISH...BETWEEN FLATWOODS TO BOYCE AND BALL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... GARDNER...ALEXANDRIA...PINEVILLE BY 430 PM WOODWORTH...DEVILLE BY 445 PM FOREST HILL...LECOMPTE BY 500 PM HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 10, 2:56 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 2:56 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 256 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 MODELS INDICATE UPPER DIVERGENT PATTERN WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND MOVE EAST OF...OR WEAKEN OVER...THE EASTERN EXTREMES OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. MID AND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS SHOULD BE OVER THE LOCAL AREA AT MID-DAY SATURDAY. AHEAD OF THIS TROUGH...700-300 MB Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE WILL BE INCREASING EXTREME NORTHWEST BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT WITH A MODERATE TO STRONG Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE RIDGE MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA TONIGHT INTO MID-DAY SATURDAY WEAKENING OVER THE EAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AREA OF STRONG UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES /OMEGA/ WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN PARTS OF THE AREA THIS EVENING...MOVE OVER THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT HOURS AND BE WEAKENING AND EXITING THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING. STRONGEST MID AND UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITY IS PROGGED TO BE MAINLY ALONG AND BEHIND THE SURFACE FRONT. THE SURFACE COLD FRONT IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST EXTREMES OF THE AREA THIS EVENING AND MOVE OUT TO THE EAST SATURDAY MORNING. MODELS INDICATE THAT THERE WILL BE HIGH MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE LOCAL AREA SATURDAY. MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY PROGS SHOW CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT MOVING EAST OVER THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA TONIGHT WITH MOISTURE THINNER AND MAINLY BEHIND FRONT SOUTH PART. MODERATE TO HIGH MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES SHOULD LINGER OVER EASTERN PARTS OF THE AREA SATURDAY MORNING BUT DRY AIR IS PROGGED FOR THE ENTIRE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE BETTER IN HIGHER INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE NORTH PART. WILL KEEP POPS IN LIKELY CATEGORY NORTH PART AND HAVE MAINLY CHANCE POPS SOUTH PART FOR TONIGHT. WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS CENTRAL AND CHANCE POPS EAST FOR SATURDAY MORNING IN HIGHER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY BEHIND FRONT. NGM MOS TEMPERATURES LOOK ABOUT RIGHT. .LCH...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CAMERON LOUISIANA TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS LA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZZ450-470 TX...SMALL_ CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ450-470 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BPT 55/65/43/66 6000 LCH 54/63/40/66 5200 LFT 54/61/40/63 4200 AEX 52/59/38/64 8300
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 10, 2:21 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
221 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0105 PM 2 NW JASPER TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 JASPER
RELocal storm report, Mar 10, 2:39 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
239 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....{
0200 PM BURKEVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 NEWTON
RELocal storm report, Mar 10, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
245 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....[
0130 PM 2 W BURKEVILLE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 NEWTON
RELocal storm report, Mar 10, 3:42 PM CST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
342 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM NEW LLANO LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON
0315 PM LEESVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNONLocal storm report, Mar 10, 4:04 PM CST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
404 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0359 PM LEESVILLE LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNONLocal storm report, Mar 10, 4:08 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
408 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....!
0400 PM LEESVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 VERNON ESTIMATED WIND GUST TO 60
MPHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 64 min |
| Mar 10, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 66 min |
| Mar 10, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.