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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 7, 1998Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 2:51 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Mar 7, 1998, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 1998, 3:25 PM CST
In force: 34 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 20:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 2:57 PM CST	Hail 1.5	De Ridder, 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
Mar 7, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 666 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Mar 7, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
130 PM CST SAT MAR 7 1998

APPEARS AFT WILL BE BUSY AS TSTMS BEGINNING TO REGENERATE. DECENT
TORNADO THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AS LOW LEVEL SHEAR INCREASING AS SFC
WINDS INCREASE. WILL HIT THE HIGH PTS OF FORECAST. MODELS IN BETTER
AGREEMENT THAN THEY HAVE BEEN WITH PREVIOUS RUNS. HAVE TRENDED CLOSE
TO ETA SOLN WITH UPCOMING FORECAST. AXIS OF DEEP MOISTURE WILL DICTATE
POPS FOR FIRST PD. IT MOVES EAST TONIGHT WELL AHEAD OF COLD AIR...ALONG
AND JUST AHEAD OF SFC TROF/DRY LINE CURRENTLY SOUTH OF DEVELOPING SFC
LOW BETWEEN LFK AND CLL. BEST CHC FOR SVR WILL BE THIS AFT/EARLY
EVE ACROSS AREA AS SOME HEATING OCCURS AND ATMOS FURTHER DESTABILIZES.

WOULD LIKE TO KKEP FFA FOR LA ZONES FOR PRIMARILY EVENING HVY RAIN
POTENTIAL...HOWEVER BEST MOISTURE WILL BE EAST OF SE TX BY 00Z SO WILL
LET FFA FOR THAT AREA EXPIRE AT 00Z.

LIKE SLIGHTLY COOLER HIGHS 2ND PD WITH CC REMAINING MOST OF DAY AND
DECENT CAA. WILL KEEP POPS FOR SUN MORNING WITH STRONG VORT ROUNDING
BASE OF TROF.

1

BPT 54/60/36/58 3200
LCH 55/60/37/58 6200  LFT 55/59/38/59 6200  AEX 53/57/36/57 6200

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 7, 10:17 AM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1017 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998

...THE TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE...

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST
OUT OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THEREFORE THE WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
LOUISIANA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

THUNDERSTORM RE-DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE
BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT AS ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND A COLD
FRONT APPROACHS FROM THE WEST.

Special weather statement, Mar 7, 10:17 AM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before

LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-071915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1017 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998

...THE TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE...

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST
OUT OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THEREFORE THE WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
LOUISIANA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

THUNDERSTORM RE-DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE
BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT AS ADDITIONAL UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND A COLD
FRONT APPROACHS FROM THE WEST.

Local storm report, Mar 7, 2:30 PM CST, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 11:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis
Mar 7, 2:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	63 min
Mar 7, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	59 min
Mar 7, 3:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	34 min
Mar 7, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vermilion	58 min
Mar 7, 4:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	59 min
Mar 7, 4:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vermilion	65 min
Mar 7, 4:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia	45 min
Mar 7, 5:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	44 min
Mar 7, 5:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia	63 min
Mar 7, 5:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	43 min
Mar 7, 6:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	61 min
Mar 7, 6:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	49 min
Mar 7, 6:45 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	2 hr
Mar 7, 7:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	40 min
Mar 7, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	44 min
Mar 7, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	45 min
Mar 7, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	56 min
Mar 7, 2:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	60 min
Mar 7, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	47 min
Mar 7, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	46 min
Mar 7, 4:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	49 min
Mar 7, 4:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	44 min
Mar 7, 5:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson	59 min
Mar 7, 5:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Orange	47 min
Mar 7, 5:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	31 min
Mar 7, 6:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	31 min
Mar 7, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper	48 min
Mar 7, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.