Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2001, 10:28 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2001, 10:28 AM CST (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2001, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 261626 SVRLCH LAC079-261730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1028 AM CST MON FEB 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 1018 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BOYCE BY 1040 AM CST ALEXANDRIA BY 1050 AM CST PINEVILLE BY 1100 AM CST 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. LAT...LON 3095 9280 3099 9238 3139 9220 3140 9285 K. KUYPER
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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 26, 8:38 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 8:38 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 838 AM CST MON FEB 26 2001 RADAR / LIGHTNING DATA INDICATE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA...WHERE THE FORECAST CALLED FOR RAIN TODAY. UPDATED FORECASTS FOR THE NORTH PART OF THE AREA TO CALL FOR A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BPT 75/65/77/63 /3344 LCH 74/64/77/62 3344 LFT 73/63/76/61 3344 AEX 67/58/72/58 3455 23...MARCOTTE
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.