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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 24, 2001Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 10:14 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Allen Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 10:39 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Elizabeth, 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 2062 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLCH 250315
SVRLCH

LAC003-250400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1014 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1012 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF ELIZABETH...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELIZABETH BY 1035 PM CDT
  OAKDALE BY 1050 PM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL WHICH COULD
CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

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

LAT...LON 3087 9297 3073 9296 3077 9260 3089 9266

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, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
900 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

LITTLE TIME TO GET LONG WINDED. BASICALLY BEEN UPDATING ZONES FOR
WATCH RECONFIGURATION AND TIMING OF FRONT/SVR TSRA. FURTHER UPDATES
WILL BE LIKELY BE NEEDED AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON AS WATCHES
EXPIRE/POSSIBLE REISSUED.

.LCH...NONE.

.PRELIM NUMBERS...
AEX 60/80/62/83/63 70032
BPT 64/83/64/85/66 50032
LCH 65/82/65/85/67 50032
LFT 65/82/65/85/66 40032

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 5:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
506 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

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

0405 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0405 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0410 PM    TIOGA                     LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0414 PM    5 E TIOGA                 LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0415 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED
                                          HAIL FELL FOR 15 MINUTES.

0425 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0432 PM    KOLIN                     LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0450 PM    PICKERING                 LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   VERNON                         REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0450 PM    EFFIE                     LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   AVOYELLES                      REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0450 PM    EFFIE                     LA   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   AVOYELLES                      REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0455 PM    EFFIE                     LA   .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   AVOYELLES                      REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0500 PM    BALL                      LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, May 24, 9:30 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
930 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

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

0530 PM    ALEXANDRIA                LA   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES

0541 PM    1 N PINEVILLE             LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES

0545 PM    ALEXANDRIA                LA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZED HAIL AT I-45 AND
                                          US 165.

0555 PM    FULLERTON                 LA   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   VERNON                         REPORTED BY FORT POLK
                                          WEATHER.

0633 PM    5 N ELIZABETH             LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
                                          COVERED THE GROUND.

0635 PM    3 E GARDNER               LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR
                                          KINCAID LAKE.

0640 PM    10 W ALEXANDRIA           LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES

0640 PM    3 N EFFIE                 LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   AVOYELLES

0650 PM    ALEXANDRIA                LA   .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        NICKEL SIZED HAIL FELL FOR
                                          10 MINUTES AND COVERED THE
                                          GROUND NEAR CHARLES PARK
                                          SUBDIVISION.

0655 PM    ALEXANDRIA                LA   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        BASEBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR
                                          THE COLISEUM.

0657 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES

0658 PM    ELIZABETH                 LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ALLEN                          GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL.

0700 PM    ALEXANDRIA                LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
                                          VICTORIA DRIVE.

0730 PM    PINEVILLE                 LA   4.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   RAPIDES                        GRAPEFRUIT SIZED HAIL.

0735 PM    CLEARWATER                LA   .88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   EVANGELINE

0750 PM    PINE PRAIRIE              LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   EVANGELINE                     GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
                                          CHICOT AND PINE PRAIRIE.

0820 PM    REDDELL                   LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   EVANGELINE                     LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL
                                          COVERING THE GROUND.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	64 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	55 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	33 min
May 24, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline	53 min
May 24, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	57 min
May 24, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	54 min
May 24, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	22 min
May 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	51 min
May 25, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	63 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.