Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1997, 8:07 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
- Jul 23, 1997, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 4601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 240108 RRA SVRLCH TXC361-240215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 807 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ORANGE COUNTY AT 805 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ORANGE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE MAURICEVILLE AREA BY 815 PM AND MOVE PARALLEL TO HIGHWAY 12...REACHING VIDOR BY 845 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 Jul 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 200 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997 SCT TSTMS OCCURRING ACROSS CEN LA AND A DYING TSTM COMPLEX OFF THE SC LA COAST THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS DIFFER ON RAIN CHCS PARTICULARLY THIS EVENING AND TOMORROW. ETA DRIER THAN NGM...AND APPEARS AVN POPS IN BETWEEN. MAIN FEATURES DURING THE PD ARE TROPICAL WV OVR E GULF MOVING W...SFC TROF LOCATED ACROSS E TX...N LA AND N MISS...AND A WK UPPER LOW OVR NE TX MOVING SW. SFC TROF IS ACTING TO FOCUS TSTMS N OF AREA WHERE TEMPS HAVE RISEN INTO THE MID 90S. ATTM NOT MUCH CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROPICAL WV...HARD TO TELL HOW MUCH THIS FEATURE WILL ENHANCE RAIN CHCS. NGM VVEL ARE OVERDONE DURING 18-30 HR TIME SO WILL ABANDON MOS POPS. WITH DEEP SE FLOW OFF OF GULF PROGGED TO DEVELOP AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN PLACE...BELIEVE A SLIGHT INCREASE IN POPS IS WARRANTED. HAVE TRENDED POPS TOWARDS MOST REASONABLE AVN SOLN. TEMPS LOOK TO BE CLOSE TO WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN. 1 BPT 78/95/78/95 2323 LCH 78/94/78/94 2323 LFT 78/94/78/94 2424 AEX 75/95/75/95 2424
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 6:07 PM CDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
607 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
602 PM 2 N KINDER LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/23/97 ALLEN REPORTED BY CASINO
VALET SERVICELocal storm report, Jul 23, 6:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
607 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..H..
602 PM 2 N KINDER LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/23/97 ALLEN REPORTED BY CASINO
VALET SERVICELocal storm report, Jul 23, 7:52 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
752 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
725 PM GILLIS LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/23/97 CALCASIEU REPORTED TO KPLC CHANNEL 7
METEOROLOGISTLocal storm report, Jul 23, 8:00 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
752 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..\..
725 PM GILLIS LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/23/97 CALCASIEU REPORTED TO KPLC CHANNEL 7
METEOROLOGISTNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.