Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 4:04 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2001, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Pineville, LA | |
| May 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Pineville, LA | |
| May 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Kolin, LA |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
549 WUUS54 KLCH 242109 SVRLCH LAC079-242145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 404 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 359 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ALEXANDRIA BY 430 PM 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. LAT...LON 3149 9255 3131 9256 3116 9225 3142 9226
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 May 24, 1:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 1:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 158 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...DEEP MID/UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA. SURFACE COLD FRONT ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST FROM JUST NORTH OF MONROE...JUST SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO TEXAS BETWEEN WACO AND AUSTIN. SATELLITE PICS SHOWING ENHANCED CU/AC ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY. ACROSS FCST AREA...SKIES HAVE REMAINED MOSTLY SUNNY ALLOWING TEMPS TO CLIMB TO FORECASTED HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN MOVING FRONT ACROSS AREA THIS EVENING... TO NEAR AEX BY 00Z...TO COASTAL PARISHES AROUND 05Z. WHILE BEST DYNAMICS WILL REMAIN NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF REGION CLOSER TO LOW... INSTABILITY WILL BE HIGH ACROSS REGION. CAPES GENERALLY RUNNING 2000- 2500 J/KG ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 WHERE DEWPOINTS HAVE RISEN INTO THE MID AND UPPER 60S...DECREASING TO 1000-2000 OVER NORTHERN PORTION OF AREA WHERE DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO HOLD IN THE LOW 60S. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES CONTINUING...NOTED ON MODIFIED LCH 12Z SOUNDING. WITH EXTENT OF INSTABILITY...COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AHEAD OF INCOMING FRONT...HAVE OPTED TO BUMP POPS UP TONIGHT FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. WILL ALSO INCLUDE SEVERE WORDING IN THE ZONES. FRONT ROCKETS INTO COASTAL WATERS LATE TONIGHT. SOME DIFFERENCES IN MODEL SOLUTIONS FOR FRIDAY. WITH AVN/MAV HOLDING ONTO DEEPER MOISTURE AND PRECIP ACROSS AREA...WHILE NGM AND ETA SHOWING JUST SOME LINGERING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. WILL GO WITH MAJORITY SOLUTION AND MAINTAIN ZERO POPS TOMORROW. WILL KEEP RAIN CHANCE THROUGH THE WEEKEND HOWEVER...AS EXTENDED MODELS MOVE SEVERAL I3MPULSES ACROSS REGION AS UPPER LOW MEANDERS OVER UPPER MIDWEST. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 60/80/62/83/63 50032 BPT 64/83/64/85/66 50032 LCH 65/82/65/85/67 50032 LFT 65/82/65/85/66 50032 MARCOTTE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 244 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... A LATE SEASON COLD FRONT AND A WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION WILL PROVIDE THE INGREDIENTS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALIZED FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE SEVERE STORM THREAT IS EXPECTED TO END BY MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 56 min |
| May 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 56 min |
| May 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 54 min |
| May 24, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 63 min |
| May 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 57 min |
| May 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 58 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.