Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 2002, 1:41 AM CST for Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2002, 1:41 AM CST (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2002, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 150741 SVRLCH TXC245-361-150845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 140 AM CST FRI NOV 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 245 AM CST * AT 137 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAUMONT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSE CITY BY 150 AM CST PINE FOREST BY 155 AM CST VIDOR BY 200 AM CST MAURICEVILLE BY 215 AM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
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 Nov 14, 9:45 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 9:45 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
945 PM CST THU NOV 14 2002
LOOKING OVER EVERYTHING THIS EVENING... FRONT IS MOVING INTO
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AROUND 20 KNOTS OR ABOUT 23 MPH. THIS IS SHOWING
UP NICELY ON STLT AND LOCAL RADARS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
FOCUSED AROUND AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT (LN EXTENDS FROM JUST
WEST OF SHV BACK TO COLLEGE STATION IN CNTRL TX). SKIES ARE CLEARING
QUICKLY BEHIND THE FRONT AS WINDS KICK AROUND TO THE NORTHWEST.
FRONT LOOKS TO BE THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
AND WILL EXIT SOUTH-CNTRL LA BEFORE SUNRISE. DEW POINTS ARE DROPPING
PRETTY QUICKLY BEHIND THE FRONT ALTHOUGH TEMPS ARE LAGGING A BIT.
HAVE MADE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE ZONES.
MARINE...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.
.LCH...NONE
.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
FR SA SU MO FR SA SU MO
BPT 56/67 46/63 38/62 42 6/0 0/0 -/0 0
LCH 57/67 47/62 38/61 41 6/0 0/0 1/1 -
LFT 58/66 46/60 37/58 41 5/0 0/0 1/1 -
AEX 52/60 47/56 33/58 36 5/0 0/0 2/- 0
K. KUYPERHazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 4:50 AM CST, 20 hours 51 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 450 AM CST THU NOV 14 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CENTRAL... SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. .TODAY AND TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT. DUE TO THE FAST PROGRESSION OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 1/4 OF AN INCH. AT THE MOMENT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT. .RIVER FLOODING... MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF THE CALCASIEU, MERMENTAU, AND VERMILION RIVERS...AS WELL AS THE PINE ISLAND BAYOU. THESE RIVERS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE FALLING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION... THE ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY. .FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE COLD FRONT WILL EXIT THE AREA AROUND NOON TIME FRIDAY. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE FRONT PASSES. AGAIN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN ADDITIONAL 1/4 OF AN INCH POSSIBLE. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA DURING THE MORNING HOURS. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL WATERS IN WAKE OF THE FRONT FRIDAY EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL BE LIKELY DURING THIS TIME FRAME. A COLD CANADIAN AIRMASS WILL ADVECT INTO THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND. SOME OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON ARE EXPECTED. NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE LAKES AREA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING AND AGAIN MONDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. RUA
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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.