Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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, 5:10 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Lake Charles, LA | |
| Apr 3, 5:13 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Westlake, 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, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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 WFUS54 KLCH 031002 TORLCH LAC019-031100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 500 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 450 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SULPHUR...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. 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. LAT...LON 3040 9341 3009 9344 3005 9301 3036 9309
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 68 min |
| Apr 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Rapides | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 5:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 5:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 6:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Rapides | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 68 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.