Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2001, 9:38 PM CST for Evangeline Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 52 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 24, 2001, 9:38 PM CST (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2001, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Evangeline Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 250338 SVRLCH LAC039-097-250430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 938 PM CST SAT MAR 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 933 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAMOU...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MAMOU BY 945 PM CST EUNICE BY 950 PM CST CHATAIGNIER BY 955 PM CST OPELOUSAS BY 1020 PM CST CANKTON...GRAND COTEAU...SUNSET BY 1025 PM CST LEONVILLE...PORT BARRE BY 1030 PM CST SEVERE 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.c
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 24, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 830 PM CST SAT MAR 24 2001 STORMS MOVG ACRS THE AREA TOWARDS THE EAST WHILE A FEW ISOLATED CELLS ARE MOVG MORE SE...WILL CONT TO MONITOR. ATT DO NOT SEE ANY WIDESPREAD SVR STORMS DVLPG...ALTHOUGH IT MAYBE PSBLY TO SEE ONE OR TWO REACH SVR LIMITS. COLD FRNT THRU POE AND AEX AND IS EXPECTED TO TRUCK THRU LCH/BPT BEFORE 06Z. THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY CUT OUT LOW LVL INSTABILITY. SUNNY SKIES AND COOLER TEMPS ON TAP FOR TMRW AFTN. WILL MAKE SOME AMD TO ZONES. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 47/61/36/62/40 50002 BPT 50/63/42/65/45 40001 LCH 51/63/40/65/42 50001 LFT 52/63/40/6@5/42 50001 K. KUYPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.