Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1997, 5:52 PM CST for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 1997, 5:52 PM CST (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1997, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 6:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Batson, TX | |
| Dec 23, 6:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Fred, TX | |
| Dec 23, 6:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 560 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 232353 RRA SVRLCH TXC199-245-457-240045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 552 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS ...HARDIN COUNTY ...JEFFERSON COUNTY ...TYLER COUNTY AT 555 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BAYTOWN TO LUFKIN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF HARDIN...JEFFERSON...AND TYLER COUNTIES BY 615 PM AND THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE THREE COUNTIES INCLUDING THE BEAUMONT AND PORT ARTHUR AREAS BY 7 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LINE IN THE HOUSTON AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES...COMPUTERS...OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Dec 23, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 64 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.