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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 6, 2001Orange County, Texas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDTThunderstorm WindVidor, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1658 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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

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.