Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 26, 2001, 12:21 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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
- Nov 26, 2001, 12:21 PM CST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 54 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), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
756 WUUS54 KLCH 261822 SVRLCH LAC079-261915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1221 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 115 PM CST * AT 1216 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WOODWORTH BY 1235 PM CST LECOMPTE BY 1240 PM CST ALEXANDRIA BY 1255 PM CST PINEVILLE BY 110 PM CST REMEMBER TORNADOES CAN AND DO FORM WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. STORMS 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 3103 9268 3097 9246 3138 9221 3144 9235
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 Nov 26, 9:38 AM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 9:38 AM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 938 AM CST MON NOV 26 2001 DEW POINTS CURRENTLY RUNNING 15 TO 20 DEGREES ABOVE THIS TIME YESTERDAY. SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL WINDS USHERING IN VERY MOIST AIR WITH MORNING LCH SOUNDING INDICATING PRECIPITABLE WATER AT 1.30 INCHES COMPARED TO 0.36 INCHES 24 HOURS PRIOR. THETA-E RIDGE AND ACCOMPANYING LOW LEVEL 30-35 KNOT JET PROGGED TO HOLD OVER THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH CONTINUING FEED OF MOISTURE. VERY WET WEATHER PATTERN ON TAP. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES AT THIS TIME. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 77/58/64/56/60/36 366893 BPT 80/62/70/57/63/39 466882 LCH 79/63/70/58/65/39 466882 LFT 78/66/73/59/70/39 466895 .LCH...NONE. MARCOTTE
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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.