Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 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 26, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Charles, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 1666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 262112 SVRLCH LAC019-262215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 411 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTLAKE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MOSS BLUFF BY 435 PM CDT LAKE CHARLES BY 440 PM CDT LEBLEU SETTLEMENT BY 515 PM CDT 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 3034 9338 3016 9341 3010 9305 3033 9304
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 26, 1:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 152 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 .TONITE... FOR THIS EVENING THE PRE-TSTM ENVIRONMENT LOOKS SOMEWHAT UNFRIENDLY. BELIEVE THAT MID LVL WESTERLIES WILL ADVECT SOME SHWRS/TSTMS INTO FCST AREA...WHERE THEY WILL SUBSEQUENTLY FALL APART. FOR THE OVERNITE HOURS...THE TYPICAL RADIATION INVRN RETURNS. THE MESOETA MODEL DEPICTS A DRY-OUT AT GRAD LVL (900 MB)...WHICH MAY INITIATE VAPOR DRIVEN PLUMES OFF THE SFC. XPC MORNING LOW CLOUDS...PATCHY FOG PSBL. FTHR...A RATHER STEEP BACLIN ZONE SETS UP ACRS THE CSTL MARSHES (MID 60S INLAND TO NR 70 AT THE COAST). .SUN AND SUN NITE... XPC SCT AFTN TSTMS OVR E-CNTRL LOUISIANA...ISOLD ELSW. LANDWARD OF THE SEA BREEZE...THE AFTN BLYR WILL DEEPEN TO 4000 FT...CAPPED BY A WEAK INVRN. AFTN MAXIMUMS WILL BE NEAR NORMAL. SUN NITE LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF SAT NITE. .MON...CORRECTION INCRG GULF BREEZES SHUD PUSH THE SEA BREEZE FTHR INLAND...OTRW XPC LITTLE CHANGE FROM SUNDAY. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 63/85/69/88/74 33000 BPT 68/87/73/87/76 21000 LCH 68/87/72/86/76 21000 LFT 66/87/72/87/76 22000 $$y TRARES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 53 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.