Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 3:51 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:08 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Hamshire, TX | |
| Apr 3, 4:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Port Arthur, TX | |
| Apr 3, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Groves, TX | |
| Apr 3, 4:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Port Acres, TX |
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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 030852 SVRLCH TXC245-030945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 351 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 349 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAUMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NOME BY 420 AM CDT CHINA BY 430 AM CDT BEAUMONT...BEVIL OAKS BY 450 AM 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.
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 2, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 42 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, 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.