Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 41
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 27, 1997, 7:00 PM CST for 45 parishes in Louisiana; Adams County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1997, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1997, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Angelina County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Marion County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 34 min |
| Jan 27, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 8:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 hr |
| Jan 27, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 28, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Avoyelles, Cameron, Catahoula and 19 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.