Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2001, 2:14 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 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 28, 2001, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLCH 281916 SVRLCH LAC011-282015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 214 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DE RIDDER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BUNDICK LAKE BY 220 PM CDT SUGARTOWN BY 225 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. CALL 337-47C7-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3071 9358 3046 9327 3078 9301 3087 9324
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 28, 9:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 9:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 956 AM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 WILL MAKE ADDITION OF...STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE...IN UPDATED ZONES COMING OUT SHORTLY. MORNING LCH SOUNDING SHOWING STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...YIELDING CAPES OF 4400 J/KG. COULD SEE SOME DAMAGING HAIL IN STRONGER STORMS. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BPT 88/72/90/73 4020 LCH 88/72/88/72 4030 LFT 86/71/87/70 6040 AEX 85/69/85/69 4040 MARCOTTE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1022 AM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... A LINGERING UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE...AS THE REGION REMAINS UNDER A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION SZERVICE PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.