Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2001, 3:28 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 6, 2001, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Vidor, TX |
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
706 WUUS54 KLCH 062028 SVRLCH TXC361-062130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 328 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 319 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VIDOR...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSE CITY BY 345 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.
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 6, 1:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 1:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 107 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2001 .TONITE... THE REMAINS OF BARRY WILL MOVE THRU E-CNTRL MISSISSIPPI...WITH AN ATTACHED TROF TRAILING SWWD TO ACRS SERN TEXAS. BARRY IS FCST TO ENTER NWRN MISSISSIPPI DURG THE OVERNITE HOURS. SOUTHWARD OF THE ATTACHED TROF...THE GULF BREEZE ATTEMPTS A RETURN. EXPECT NEAR NORMAL OVERNITE MINIMUMS. SOME CIRRUS CLOUDS WILL MOVE IN FROM THE GULF. ANY CNVTV ACTIVITY SHUD END IN THE EVENING HOURS. .TUE... THE REMAINS OF BARRY SETTLE ACRS NWRN MISSISSIPPI...THE ASSOCD TRAILING TROF EXTENDS SWWD INTO ERN TEXAS...JUST NWWD OF THE LAKES REGION. GULF BREEZES RETURN SWD OF THIS TROF. EXPECT NEAR NORMAL AFTN MAXIMUMS WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .TUE NITE THRU WED NITE... REMAINS OF BARRY DRIFT INTO NERN ARKANSAS. EXPECT AFTN MAXIMUMS AND OVERNITE MINIMUM TO BE NEAR NORMAL. GULF BREEZES IN PLACE WITH SCATTERED AFTN SHWRS AND TSTMS. .LCH...NONE .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 73/90/74/91/74 24030 BPT 75/90/75/92/76 24020 LCH 74/89/75/90/76 24030 LFT 73/88/74/90/75 24030 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.