Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2002, 1:51 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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
- Jul 12, 2002, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2002, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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.
556 WUUS54 KLCH 121851 SVRLCH LAC011-121945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 151 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 148 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF DRY CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BUNDICK LAKE BY 205 PM CDT LONGVILLE BY 205 PM CDT DRY CREEK BY 220 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.
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 Jul 12, 1:16 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 1:16 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 116 PM CDT FRI JUL 12 2002 WILL UPDATE ZONES FOR THIS AFTERNOON TO LOWER POPS OVER SOUTHEASTERN CWA AND WORD FOR PARTLY CLOUDY WHERE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS WEAKER. .KLCH...NONE. .UPDATED NUMBERS... AEX 92/74/90/74/90/74 545443 BPT 94/76/90/75/90/75 434332 LCH 93/75/90/75/89/75 434332 LFT 93/75/90/75/89/75 224332
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.