Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 5, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County St. Mary Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan City, 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 KLCH 052225 SVRLCH LAC101-052300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 524 PM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. MARY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 516 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORGAN CITY...NEARLY STATIONARY. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MORGAN CITY BY 550 PM CDT BERWICK...BAYOU VISTA...PATTERSON BY 600 PM CDT 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 2970 9112 2975 9123 2966 9142 2956 9126
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 Aug 5, 2:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 222 PM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001 .TONITE... THE CRCLN ASSOCD WITH BARRY WILL MAINTAIN EVENING SHWRS ACRS SWRN LOUISIANA. HWVR...THE NOCTURNAL SINKING AIR SHUD EXTINGUISH MOSTOF THE SHWRS BEFORE MIDNIGHT. XPC OVERNITE MINIMUMS TO BE NEAR NORMAL. THE ATYPICAL NLY WINDS WILL KEEP THE NEAR SFC AIR CONTINENTAL...THE CSTL BACLIN ZONE WILL BE RATHER WEEK. .MON... BARRY SIDESTEPS TO THE WEST INTO SWRN ALABAMA. CLOUDS INCREASE AS MSTR FROM THE NORTH STREAMS SWD...OVERRIDING THE FILM OF CONTINENTAL AIR. THE CLOUD COVER SHUD TEMPER THE AFTN MAXIMUMS. .MON NITE THRU TUE NITE... BARRY CONTS ITS NWD TREK. CLOUDS WILL LINGER ARND. XPC SHWRS TO END IN THE EVENING HOURS...BUT RETURN ONCE AGAIN DURG THE AFTN HOURS. .LCH...NONE .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 73/90/74/90/73 25252 BPT 75/93/75/91/75 13131 LCH 74/93/75/90/75 242424 LFT 75/91/75/90/75 24242 TRARES
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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.