Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 5:03 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2001, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2001, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Allen Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 192205 SVRLCH LAC003-192240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 503 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 540 PM CDT * AT 501 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF ELIZABETH...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ELIZABETH BY 525 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 3086 9287 3079 9286 3086 9263 3088 9273
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 Jun 19, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 225 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 RADAR CURRENTLY INDICATES SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG ACTIVE SEA BREEZE FROM THE NORTH END OF SABINE LAKE TO NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE. WE HAVE RECEIVED A COUPLE REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEAR BRIDGE CITY AND SABINE PASS. ALSO...STORMS HAVE BEEN PUTTING DOWN BRIEF HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN WITH NEARLY A HALF INCH REPORTED AT KLFT IN A ONE HOUR PERIOD. FORECAST PERIOD THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT... SIMILAR PATTERN WILL BE OVER THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN DECENT GULF MOISTURE WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES BETWEEN 1.5 AND 1.75 INCHES. MEANWHILE WEAKNESS SEEN IN THE MID LEVELS WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG THE GULF COAST. THEREFORE...SHOULD AGAIN SEE AN ACTIVE SEABREEZE PUSHING GRADUALLY INLAND DURING THE DAY. DUE TO WEAK VERTICAL WIND PROFILE...BELIEVE A FEW FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND THE SEABREEZE COLLIDE. ALSO...WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS... ISOLATED LOCATIONS WILL SEE ONE-HALF TO INCH OF OF RAINFALL. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHES BACK A LITTLE TO THE EAST ON THURSDAY...THEREFORE WILL CUT POPS BACK A TAD. THURSDAY NIGHT SETTING UP TO BE A BIT LIKE LAST THURSDAY NIGHT. STRONG TROF MOVING DOWN INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AT THIS TIME ALONG WITH AREA UNDER RIGHT REAR QUAD OF JET PROVIDING GOOD DIVERGENCE ALOFT. STORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS IN THE EVENING WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST INTO THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT. EXTENDED... TROF PUSHES THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA ON FRIDAY...WITH DRYING TAKING PLACE FOR THE WEEKEND INTO THE START OF NEXT WEEK. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 70/91/71/90/70 23233 BPT 72/89/73/90/71 23223 LCH 72/89/72/89/71 24233 LFT 72/89/72/89/7N1 24233 7-RUA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 130 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1:15 PM...ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR BRIDGE CITY MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST. A MOIST TROPICAL AIRMASS AND RELATIVELY WEAK WINDS IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS...SHORT-LIVED FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...ALONG THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE COASTAL PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. OFTEN...FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS FORM UNDER RAPIDLY DEVELOPING CUMULUS CLOUDS WHERE SEABREEZE AND RAIN COOLED BOUNDARIES...KNOWN AS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES... COLLIDE. THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN CAUSE DAMAGE IF THEY TOUCH DOWN. ALSO... WATERSPOUTS POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO MARINERS AND CAN CAPSIZE A SMALL CRAFT. STAYED TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. TO REPORT FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CALL: 337 477Y-5285. RUA
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.