Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1997, 2:01 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 22, 1997, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Evadale, 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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1498 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 221901 RRA SVRLCH TXC241-222000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 201 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY AT 158 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...NEAR SILSBEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF EVADALE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 Apr 22, 1:45 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:45 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 145 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 ...LCH CWA UNDER THE GUN... SFC LOW WITH ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT BEARING DOWN ON LCH CWA. WW 180 IN EFFECT TIL 7PM FOR SE TX AND SW LA...WW 182 IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LA TIL 900 PM. SVR TSTM WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR JASPER...NEWTON COUNTIES AND BEAUREGARD PARISH. REPORTS OF BASEBALL...QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES. ONE INCH SIZE HAIL IN BEAUREGARD. SAT PICS SHOW SFC LOW MOVING ACROSS SE TX. COLD FRONT WILL TRACK ACROSS LCH CWA BY 02Z...ENDING THE THREAT OF SVR WX. ETA WAS NOT AVAILABLE. NGM SHOWS DRYING LOW-MID LEVELS BY 06Z...PCLDY TONIGHT...MOSUNNY ON WEDNESDAY. LOOKS LIKE A SLGHT CHC OF RA MAY CREEP BACK INTO THE FORECAST ON THURSDAY WITH RETURN FLOW. MOS GUIDANCE NOT TOO FAR OFF... WENT A BIT COOLER FOR HIGHS AND LOWS. 13 BPT 56/79/58/79 2002 LCH 57/78/58/79 2001 LFT 59/78/57/78 2001 AEX 56/77/54/77 2002
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 22, 1:40 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
140 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
130 PM 8 W KOUNTZE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/22/97 HARDIN REPORTED BY HONEY ISLAND
GENERAL STORE SPOTTERSLocal storm report, Apr 22, 1:42 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
140 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
130 ^PM 8 W KOUNTZE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/22/97 HARDIN REPORTED BY HONEY ISLAND
GENERAL STORE SPOTTERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 69 min |
| Apr 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.