Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2001, 12:57 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2001, 12:57 AM CST (06:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2001, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 090658 SVRLCH LAC055-097-090800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1257 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 1253 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OPELOUSAS TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARENCRO TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LAFAYETTE...LEONVILLE BY 105 AM CST PORT BARRE BY 110 AM CST BROUSSARD BY 115 AM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS 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.
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 8, 8:20 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 8:20 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 820 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001 THE 500 MB TROUGH IS RAPIDLY MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER EASTERN TEXAS THIS EVENING CAUSING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HAVE BEEN SEVERE...TO DEVELOPE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS EVENING. THIS LINE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AND COULD BE INTO OUR AREA LATER TONIGHT. WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE HIGH POPS IN THE FORECAST AND SOME POSSIBLE SEVERE IN THE SOUTHERN ZONES. THEREFORE...THE PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD AT THIS TIME. NO UPDATES NEEDED AT THIS TIME. MARINE...BOY035 INDICATES A SOUTHEAST WIND OF 16 KNOTS WITH 5 FOOT SEAS. WILL KEEP SMALL CRAFT UP FOR TONIGHT. WINDS WILL SWITCH FROM THE NORTHWEST LATER TONIGHT WITH SEAS CONTINUING TO BE NEAR 6 FEET. .LCH...SCA FOR GMZ450-455-470-475. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 45/68/49/60/37 00+30 BPT 48/71/53/63/42 00+20 LCH 47/70/53/63/40 00+30 LFT 47/70/52/63/41 00+30 55
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 1:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2001Every 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.