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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 28, 2001Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 28, 2001, 4:54 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 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 28, 2001, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2001, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 66 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), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 28, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 1980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 10.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

861 
WUUS54 KLCH 282255
SVRLCH
LAC079-290000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
454 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 451 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLENMORA...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  UNION HILL BY 505 PM CST
  GLENMORA BY 515 PM CST
  MCNARY BY 520 PM CST
  FOREST HILL BY 530 PM CST
  LECOMPTE...WOODWORTH BY 550 PM CST
  ALEXANDRIA BY 555 PM CST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA.

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

LAT...LON 3135 9244 3115 9223 3101 9237 3097 9247
          3091 9251 3090 9281 3110 9268

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 28, 3:01 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 28, 3:01 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
301 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

.UPDATED...
A TORNADO WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2000 CST. ALSO CORRECTED
LAFAYETTE TEMPERATURES.

.TONIGHT...
STATIONARY COLD FRONT...WHICH EXTENDS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND
THROUGH WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...IS FORECAST TO MIGRATE EAST INTO
SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA BY EARLY MORNING. PRE-FRONTAL SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. WILL RETAIN SEVERE WORDING ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

POST FRONTAL RAINS WILL PERSIST...AS DEEP SOUTHERLIES OVER-GLIDE THE
COOLER SURFACE AIR. WILL RETAIN FLASH FLOOD WATCH ACROSS ALL OF
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

WINDS WILL PICK UP ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS. THE MARINE FORECASTER
WILL ISSUE A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.

.THURSDAY...
A POLAR TROUGH WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...USHERING IN
DRIER AIR. RAINS EXPECTED TO END FROM THE WEST...HOWEVER CLOUDS AND
ROBUST COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL CAUSE SUBNORMAL MAXIMUMS.

.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AEX 44/45/30/60/40/67/45 +800000
BPT 40/49/35/64/50/70/50 7500002
LCH 46/50/33/65/47/70/50 9700002
LFT 65/65/32/64/45/71/48 +800002

.LCH...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT...LAZ027>029-030>033-041>045-051>055
       TORNADO WATCH TONIGHT...LAZ027>029-030>033-041>045-051>055
       FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT...TXZ180>182-201-215-216
       SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY...GMZ450-455-470-475

TRARES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 28, 3:27 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
327 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0250 PM    SARATOGA                  TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
11/28/01   HARDIN                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0254 PM    THICKET                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
11/28/01   HARDIN                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0304 PM    WARREN                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
11/28/01   TYLER                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

FN

Local storm report, Nov 28, 4:20 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
420 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0358 PM    LEBLANC                   LA   .75 INCH HAIL
11/28/01   ALLEN                          REPORT FROM POST OFFICE

FN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 27, 11:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	57 min
Nov 27, 11:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		2 hr
Nov 27, 11:14 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		2 hr
Nov 28, 1:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 28, 1:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Nov 28, 2:10 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		65 min
Nov 28, 3:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	54 min
Nov 28, 4:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	36 min
Nov 28, 4:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	53 min
Nov 28, 10:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	53 min
Nov 28, 1:29 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Nov 28, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	58 min
Nov 28, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	65 min
Nov 28, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	67 min
Nov 28, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	62 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.