Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 11:24 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1997, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1997, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
302 WUUS1 KLCH 310425 RRA SVRLCH TXC199-310515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1124 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...HARDIN COUNTY AT 1120 PM CDT...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN POLK AND TYLER COUNTIES MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF BATSON...SARATOGA AND KOUNTZ CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. 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 DONT 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 May 30, 8:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 820 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997 SFC ANALYSIS PLACES FRNT FROM EXTREME NE TX TO JUST NW OF ACT. STRG AND SVR TSTMS OCCURRING ALONG FRONT AND MOVG SE. CONVECTION ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS UPPER PORTIONS OF SE TX AND IN CEN LA. XPECT FRNT TO SLOW SLIGHTLY...BUT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE CURRENT MOVEMENT. LCH 00Z SOUNDING IS UNSTABLE WITH LI AT -5...ALSO DRY AT MID LEVELS. THIS SUGGESTS SVR TSTMS POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AS FRNT APPROACHES WITH THREAT OF HAIL AND WIND GUSTS. WOULD LIKE POSSIBLY SVR TO BE ADDED IN SW AND SC LA ZONES AND POPS RAISED TO 60 PERCENT FOR S SECTIONS OF LA AND SE TX. 1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 69 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.