Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 3:28 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min. 2 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
- Jan 27, 1997, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 62 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 21:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 3:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Merryville, LA | |
| Jan 27, 3:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Longville, LA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 272128 RRA SVRLCH LAC011-272230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 328 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...BEAUREGARD PARISH AT 330 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BON WIER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTS GREATER THAN 55 MPH ARE INDICATED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 Jan 27, 1:39 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 1:39 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 139 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 EXTRAP ON CD FNT AND ETA PUTS FNT INTO SE TX AND CEN LA ARND 04Z... SW LA ARND 06Z...S CEN LA ARND 08Z. A 20 DEG DROP IS TYPICAL BEHIND THIS STG CD FNT. ETA PUTS AREA IN RIGHT REAR QUAD TNITE WITH BEST UPR DYNAMICS FOR SVR ARND DAYBREAK TO NOON ON TUES...HOWEVER STG CD FNT APCHNG THIS EVENING AND CLIMO PUTS THE AREA UNDER THE GUN STARTING LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE LAKES AREA OF SE TX. MOS LKS REASONABLE. 88-DS AT POE AND LCH PICKING UP SMALL HAIL INDICATIONS IN CEN LA WITH SCATTERED TSTMS. AS VAD PROFILES ARE UNIDIRECTIONAL...EXPECT MAIN THREAT TO BE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TNITE. SHUD BE ABLE TO CLEAR SVR AREA AS FRONT MOVES THRU TNITE. 11 BPT 46/47/40/47 7735 LCH 47/47/40/48 7745 LFT 49/49/43/49 6846 AEX 46/46/36/45 8635
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 63 min |
| Jan 27, 3:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 59 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.