Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 2524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 022149 SVRLCH LAC011-022245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 448 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. * UNTIL 545 PM CDT. * AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF RAGLEY...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT RAGLEY. 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 3059 9337 3042 9337 3041 9316 3058 9316 $$
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 2, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 235 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 .DISCUSSION... MID TO UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING WILL MOVE TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA BY EARLY MORNING SATURDAY. TROUGH AXIS IS THEN PROGGED TO RETROGRADE SLOWLY WESTWARD AS A LOW DEVELOPS IN THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO SOUTH OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN DEVELOPS WESTWARD TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO MONDAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL NOT HAVE MUCH POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING INSTABILITY OVER THE LOCAL AREA THROUGH MONDAY. AT THE SURFACE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY. RELATIVELY DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY. WITH LITTLE INSTABILITY...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE AND DRYING...POPS WILL BE ON THE LOW SIDE THROUGH MONDAY. DURING THE OUTLOOK PERIOD...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RETURN DURING MID WEEK AS THE MID TO UPPER LEVEL LOW IN THE SOUTHWEST GULF MONDAY DEVELOPS NORTHWARD TO PRODUCE A TROUGH/LOW IN CENTRAL OR EASTERN TEXAS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LCH 74 92 75 92 / 10 10 0 5 BPT 74 92 75 93 / 10 0 0 5 AEX 73 94 74 93 / 20 10 0 5 LFT 75 92 76 93 / 20 10 0 5 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. && 20/20
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 5:45 AM CDT, 11 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 545 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 031100- ACADIA-ALLEN-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON- CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX FROM 20 TO 60 NM- CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM-EVANGELINE-HARDIN-IBERIA- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-LAFAYETTE- LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO CAMERON, LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM-LOWER ST MARTIN- NEWTON-ORANGE-RAPIDES-ST LANDRY-ST MARY-TYLER-UPPER ST MARTIN- VERMILION-VERNON- 545 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...IN ASSOCIATION WITH A PASSING UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE...CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS ACADIANA EARLY THIS MORNING. BY THE AFTERNOON...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP AS THE SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOWS FROM STORMS COMBINE WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SEVERAL RIVER POINTS REMAIN IN FLOOD DUE TO PREVIOUS RAINFALL RUNOFF. PLEASE SEE THE RIVER FLOOD STATEMENT ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND STORMS EXPECTED SATURDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AS THE NEXT UPPER-LEVEL SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS, HAM RADIO OPERATORS, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. LGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 66 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.