Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 4:24 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 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, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Ft Polk, 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, 10.4 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
- 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 WFUS54 KLCH 102226 TORLCH LAC115-102330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 424 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... VERNON PARISH IN WESTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 422 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR FORT POLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTH FORT POLK BY 430 PM A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVI-CE.
The 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, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 61 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.