Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1998, 2:15 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 14, 1998, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1998, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | China, 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 141915 RRA SVRLCH TXC199-245-142015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 215 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 212 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF BEAUMONT OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHINA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... CHINA BY 235 PM CDT THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. DO NOT STAND BY 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 14, 9:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 959 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 HEAVIEST ACTIVITY NOW IS ALONG COASTAL PARISHES. WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER EAST TEXAS ALONG WITH VARIOUS BOUNDARIES CRISS CROSSING THE AREA WILL COMBINE WITH UNSTABLE AIR MASS AND UPPER TROF TO KEEP CONVECTION DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE AND CAN EXPECT TO CONTINUE TP SEE HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. QUESTION OF FLASH FLOODING ARRISES DUE TO PREVIOUS RAINFALL BUT SO FAR DONT FEEL A WATCH IS WARRANTED. CAN BUMP SOUTH LA POPS A CAT AND HOLD TEMPS AROUND 90. ALL ELSE LOOKS GOOD. 8
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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.