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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 4:50 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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
- Mar 26, 2005, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rapides Parish, LA
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 262250 SVRLCH LAC079-262345- /O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0024.050326T2250Z-050326T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 450 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 446 PM CST...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 9 MILES WEST OF PINEVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BALL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3138 9264 3125 9257 3141 9219 3148 9221 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLCH 262312 SVSLCH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 512 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 LAC079-262345- /O.CON.KLCH.SV.W.0024.000000T0000Z-050326T2345Z/ RAPIDES LA- 512 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR RAPIDES PARISH... AT 505 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BALL..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINEVILLE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA. LAT...LON 3138 9264 3125 9257 3141 9219 3148 9221 $$ JT
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 Mar 26, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 2 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 .SYNOPSIS... A SHARP COLD FRONT WILL ADVANCE INTO THE LAKES REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT, CONTINUE ITS EASTWARD JOURNEY, THEN EXIT SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AROUND DAWN. FURTHER-UP, A DEEP TROUGH-IN-THE-WESTERLIES WILL FOLLOW THE TRAVELING COLD FRONT IN TANDEM. && .DISCUSSION... FOR TONIGHT, PROPAGATING GROUP WAVES WILL ENTER THE LAKES REGION THIS EVENING, AND EXIT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT. AS A FIRST GUESS, THUNDERSTORM ORGANIZATION MAY BE LINKED TO THE NEARNESS OF THESE GROUP WAVES. DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS, TEMPERATURES WILL FALL RAPIDLY ACROSS THE LAKES REGION, AS MIDWEST AIR RIDES-IN ON THE BLUE NORTHERS. A SIGNIFICANT CONTRAST IN TEMPERATURES WILL BE FOUND RANGING FROM THE LOWER 50S (ABOUT SEASONAL) ACROSS THE LAKES REGION, TO THE MID 60S (ABOUT 10 FAHRENHEIT DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL) ACROSS THE COASTAL MARSHES OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. EASTER SUNDAY MORNING LOOKS COOL WITH LIGHT DRIZZLE. THIS WRAP- AROUND STRATIFORM DRIZZLE WILL TAPER-OFF IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE TEMPERATURES WILL BE RUNNING ABOUT 10 TO 15 FAHRENHEIT DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE WIND CHILL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 5 FAHRENHEIT DEGREES COOLER THAN THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURES. && .MARINE... ONCE AGAIN, ADVECTING MARITIME TROPICAL AIR WILL BE SLIDING OVER THE RELATIVELY COOL NEAR SHORE WATERS CHILLING TO SATURATION. PATCHY SEA FOG IS THE RESULT, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST. THIS SEA FOG WILL ABRUPTLY DISPERSE WITH PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY SEEMS LIKELY FOR EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, AS STRONG BLUE NORTHERS WILL SPILL-IN BEHIND THE DEPARTED FRONT. && .AVIATION...PATCHY SEA FOG HAS ROLLED INTO KLCH AND KLFT CAUSING IFR CONDITIONS. CIGS BETWEEN 1500 AND 2500 FEET PREVAIL ACROSS MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE AREA WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STARTING AT KBPT BY 22Z AN THEN MOVING EASTWARD THRU THE EVENING HOURS. JUST HAVE VCTS AT KBPT AND KLCH WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE SCATTERED AND TEMPO TSTM AT KAEX AND KLFT WHERE ACTIVITY WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS. TSTMS WILL CLEAR THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT WITH LOW CEILINGS AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS SUNDAY MORNING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 57 63 46 74 / 50 20 0 0 KBPT 54 64 47 75 / 50 20 0 0 KAEX 56 60 43 70 / 60 20 0 0 KLFT 63 62 46 71 / 50 20 0 0 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. && 21/99
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 5:40 AM CST, 11 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 AM CST SAT MAR 26 2005 LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-271200- ACADIA-ALLEN-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON-EVANGELINE- HARDIN-IBERIA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-LAFAYETTE- LOWER ST. MARTIN-NEWTON-ORANGE-RAPIDES-ST. LANDRY-ST. MARY-TYLER- UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-VERNON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE... NEWTON...KOUNTZE...JASPER...BEAUMONT...STEPHENSVILLE...OBERLIN... ABBEVILLE...VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY... MARKSVILLE...LEESVILLE...LAKE CHARLES...LAFAYETTE...JENNINGS... DERIDDER...CROWLEY...CAMERON AND ALEXANDRIA THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM COMBINES WITH A SURFACE LOW MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING. THE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES DECREASING AFTER MIDNIGHT. WINDS WILL INCREASE OUT OF THE NORTH BEHIND THE FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DRY WEATHER WILL PREVAIL THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS ANOTHER FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS, HAM RADIO OPERATORS, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...MAY BECOME NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 24
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:44 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
444 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0431 PM HAIL PINEVILLE 31.33N 92.42W
03/26/2005 1.00 INCH RAPIDES LA PUBLIC
DIME AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
&&
SRINARDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 33 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.