Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1998, 12:11 PM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 16, 1998, 12:11 PM CST (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1998, 12:55 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 12:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Union, TX |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
385 WUUS1 KLCH 161812 RRA SVRLCH TXC241-161855- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1211 PM CST MON MAR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1255 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS ...JASPER COUNTY AT 1210 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR EVADALE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. BUNA AND KIRBYVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES...COMPUTERS...OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. ERICKSON
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 16, 8:30 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 8:30 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 830 AM CST MON MAR 16 1998 13Z SFC MAPS SHOWS DEWPOINT RIDGE/THETA E AXIS ALONG TX COAST... EXTENDING UP TO NE TX. EXPECT THIS AXIS TO MOVE INTO WESTERN LA THIS MORNING...BUT QUICKLY MOVE INTO EASTERN LA THIS AFTERNOON. WHAT THIS MEANS IS IF THERE IS GOING TO BE SEVERE WEATHER...IT WILL HAPPEN LATE THIS MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON. RIGHT NOW...IT LOOKS LIKE SE LA/MS HAS A BETTER SHOT OF SEVERE WEATHER THAN THE LCH AREA DOES. SFC MAP ALSO SHOWS A LOW TRYING TO DEVELOP IN S TX BETWEEN BRO AND CRP. IF THIS DEVELOPS AND MOVE NEWRD...WE COULD SEE A MORE EXTENSIVE SEVERE WEATHER/HEAVY RAIN THREAT LATER TODAY. COMPARING 00Z ETA/NGM...ETA HAS A MUCH BETTER HANDLE ON DEVELOPMENT OF TRACK OF MAIN SFC LOW IN N TX. WITH ALL SAID...WOULD RATHER NOT SEE ANY MAJOR CHANGES TO ZONES. PROBABLY WILL LOWER POPS FOR 2ND PERIOD LATER TODAY ON THE PM UPDATE. OTHERWISE...KEEP MENTION OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN FOR 1ST PERIOD. CURRENT FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND COAST FLOOD WATCH WILL PROBABLY NOT BE EXTENDED WITH LATE AFTN UPDATE. 15
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.