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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 2, 2001Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2001, 8:59 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 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: Mar 2, 2001, 8:59 AM CST (14:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2001, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 021459
SVRLCH
LAC079-021530-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
859 AM CST FRI MAR 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 857 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL RAPIDES PARISH...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LECOMPTE BY 905 AM CST

DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OVER 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED - TAKE COVER NOW 
VEHICLES AND MOBIL HOMES ARE NOT SAFE.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3100 9264 3092 9252 3101 9240 3100 9224
          3146 9225

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 Mar 2, 5:37 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 5:37 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
537 AM CST FRI MAR 2 2001

UPDATED ZONE FORECAST AFTER CANCELING DENSE FOG ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.LCH...FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT ENTIRE AREA
       ...LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216
        ...RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ180>182-210-215-216-LAZ027-030-041
    ...RIVER FLOOD WARNING LAC003-009-011-079-TXC351-361

.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...

AEX 56/51/59/43 ++86
BPT 59/55/65/46 ++63
LCH 60/55/64/46 8+64
LFT 71/60/64/46 7+85

20 / SPARKS

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.