Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 37
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 27, 1997, 1:45 PM CST for 20 parishes in Louisiana; 10 counties in Mississippi; 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1997, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Sabine County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Jan 27, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 36 min |
| Jan 27, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 62 min |
| Jan 27, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 59 min |
| Jan 27, 3:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 59 min |
| Jan 27, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 42 min |
| Jan 27, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 48 min |
| Jan 27, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 30 min |
| Jan 27, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 28 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 27, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas | 7 hr |
| Jan 27, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 28 more | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.