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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 2, 2000Cameron Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 6:07 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2000, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cameron Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hackberry, LA
Apr 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Hackberry, 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
Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLCH 022309
TORLCH
LAC023-030015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
607 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF HACKBERRY...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HACKBERRY BY 620 PM CDT
  CAMERON BY 645 PM CDT

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 SERVICE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT MONDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3000 9377 2982 9378 2975 9319 3002 9318

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	65 min
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, 6:12 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.