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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 2, 2000Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 11:03 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jasper County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 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, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 9.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 030403
SVRLCH
TXC241-030445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1103 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1054 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF EVADALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVADALE BY 1110 PM CDT
  GIST BY 1120 PM CDT
  BUNA BY 1135 PM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING 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 Apr 2, 7:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 7:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
754 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE LCH CWA. TWO IMPRESSIVE SUPERCELLS
HAVE CAUSED QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE IN CAMERON...CALCASIEU...AND
EVANGELINE PARISHES THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE IS STILL PRIMED
FOR MORE SEVERE WEATHER...SO WILL NOT CHANGE ZONES THIS EVENING.  15

.LCH...NONE
TX...NONE
LA...NONE

AFTERNOON TPRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
LCH 67/72/49/65 8820
BPT 68/74/47/65 7710
LFT 68/74/52/60 8840
AEX 65/68/47/58 7720

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 8:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
841 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0835 PM    PALMETTO                 LA    WIND DAMAGE
04/2/00    ST. LANDRY                     TREES DOWN HWY 360 AND HWY
                                          10. FLOODING HWY
                                          103...04 AND I-49

FN

Local storm report, Apr 2, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
854 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0835 PM    ROANOKE                  LA    .88 INCH HAIL
04/2/00    JEFFERSON DAVIS                REPORTED BY WELSH SHERIFFS
                                          DEPT

FN

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 9:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-030228-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
913 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 9 PM...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
THIS INCLUDES HARDIN...JASPER...JEFFERSON...NEWTON...ORANGE...AND
TYLER COUNTIES.

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA: ACADIA...ALLEN...AVOYELLES...
BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...CAMERON...EVANGELINE...IBERIA...JEFF
DAVIS...LAFAYETTE...RAPIDES...ST LANDRY...ST MARTIN...ST MARY...
VERMILION...AND VERNON.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

Local storm report, Apr 2, 9:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
934 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0815 PM    BRANCH                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
04/2/00    ACADIA                         ROOF OFF MOBILE HOMES
                                          ...TREES DOWN

Local storm report, Apr 2, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
955 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0700 PM    LAKE CHARLES             LA   2.00 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   CALCASIEU                     NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED
                                         TRUCK WINDOW BROKEN OUT
                                         AND TREES DOWN

FN

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:24 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
1024 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    OPELOUSAS                 LA   .75 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   ST. LANDRY                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC

FN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	61 min
Apr 3, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	60 min
Apr 3, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper	60 min
Apr 3, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	47 min
Apr 3, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	54 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	67 min
Apr 3, 4:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	67 min
Apr 3, 4:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Orange	55 min
Apr 3, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	60 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.