Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 27, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pointe Coupee Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Roads, LA | A few trees were blown down. |
| Jul 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Roads, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLIX 272131 SVRNEW LAC077-272200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 430 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POINTE COUPEE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW ROADS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF NEW ROADS...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEW ROADS AT 435 PM CDT 6 MILES SOUTH OF MORGANZA AT 455 PM CDT 6 MILES NORTH OF LIVONIA AT 500 PM CDT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS.
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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 300 PM CDT THU 27 JUL 2000 WK SHEAR AXIS NE-SW ALOFT OVER SE LA/S MS WILL MOVE LITTLE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS BUT WEAKENS BY SAT AS ANOTHER S/W TROF MOVES SWD IN THE NLY FLOW ACROSS THE MS VALLEY. LATEST SOUNDER DATA SUGGEST PW'S HIGHER THAN LATEST MODEL RUNS INDICATED. FAIRLY GOOD COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN S MS THIS AFTN IN AREA OF HIGHEST THETA-E VALUES. LONGER RANGE PROGS CONTINUE THE STRONG AMPLITUDE OF RIDGE IN THE WRN STATES AND TROFING IN THE MS VALLEY-ERN STATES. MINOR S/W TROFS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE AND THEN TURN SWD INTO THE MS VALLEY/GULF COAST REGION. TEMPS ALOFT REMAIN COOLER THAN NORMAL WITH LOWER THAN NORMAL WET-BULB ZEROS. LITTLE MOVEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CELLS SUGGEST LOCALLY HVY RAINS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IN THE EXTENDED PACKAGE...LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED IN THE WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION MOSTLY AFTNS/EVENINGS. MCB 67/95/68/93 1212 BTR 71/93/72/93 0212 MSY 73/92/73/93 1213 GPT 71/89/72/90 1212 .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-271700- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1050 AM CDT THU JUL 27 2000 INCREASING GULF MOISTURE AND RELATIVELY COOL TEMPERATURES ALOFT ALONG WITH INTENSE SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP TO TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK SEA BREEZE AND LAKE BREEZE ALSO WILL LIKELY AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. SIGNIFICANT SEkVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEB-SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 40 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.