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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2001, 5:05 PM CST for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 14, 2001, 5:05 PM CST (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2001, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 63 M | Sabine Pass, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 142305 SVRLCH TXC245-142345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 505 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 502 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAUMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BEAUMONT...GROVES...NEDERLAND AND PORT NECHES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
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 14, 3:05 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:05 PM CST, 2 hours before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 HAVE ADDED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WW63 TO SE TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ZONES...IMPRESSIVE SQUALL LINE RAPIDLY APPROACHING REGION FROM WEST. EXPECTING PRIMARILY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO POSSIBLE. RATHER BUSY THIS AFTERNOON. LCH 88D SHOWING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TRACKING NORTHEAST. A FEW CELLS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS. SPC SUGGESTING WATCH MAY BE UPCOMING AS UPPER TROUGH ADVANCES INTO REGION. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE IN THIS EVENINGS FORECAST AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO EAST TEXAS WITH STRONG DIVERGENCE INDICATED BY MODELS. 0-3 KM HELICITY VALUES EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH WITH MESO ETA SHOWING 1371 M2/S2 AT LCH AT 00Z. THIS A RESULT OF EASTERLY SURFACE WINDS...VEERING TO THE SOUTH AT 8H WHILE INCREASING TO 50 TO 60 KT...BECOMING NEAR WEST AT 7H. LIMITING FACTOR TO SEVERE CONTINUES TO BE THE ABSENCE OF SURFACE BASED MOISTURE...WITH DEW POINTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 50S ACROSS THE REGION. BELIEVE HOWEVER...EVEN WITHOUT THIS IN PLACE... DYNAMICS WILL STILL BE SUFFICIENT TO SEE A FEW STORMS REACH SEVERE LIMITS. MODELS GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT IN TRACKING STRENGTHENING SURFACE LOW NOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS NORTHEAST TO SOUTH CENTRAL GULF COAST THIS EVENING. ANY NORTHWARD DEVIATION AND RESULTING INCREASED SURFACE MOISTURE FROM FORECAST TRACK HOWEVER...COULD BE SUFFICIENT TO BRING A SUBSTANTIAL OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. NOW AWAY FROM THE DOOM AND GLOOM. HIGH PRESSURE WILL FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM INTO THE REGION...BRINGING SEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES THURSDAY...COOLING THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AS THE HIGH PLOWS FURTHER INTO THE REGION. RAIN CHANCES RETURN FOR THE WEEKEND AS A CLOSED LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE NW CONUS AND DROPS SOUTHEAST. .LCH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...TXZ180>182-201-215-216...LAZ027- 028-030-031-041-042-051 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 48/68/43/61/41 +0000 BPT 53/74/44/61/45 +0000 LCH 52/75/43/63/43 +0000 LFT 55/74/44/62/45 +0000 MARCOTTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 3:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 59 min |
| Mar 14, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 66 min |
| Mar 14, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 50 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.