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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1998, 3:13 PM CST for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1998, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1998, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 012114 SVRLCH TXC457-012200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES 313 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 311 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WOODVILLE OR 7 MILES WEST OF FRED MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REMEMBER TORNADOES CAN FORM WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. * THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... FRED BY 320 PM CST SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN 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. K. KUYPER
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 Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST, 43 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1998 STRONG COLD FRONTAL SYSTEM PROGRESSING THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. COLLEGE STATION BEHIND THE FRNTL BNDRY HAS TEMPS IN THE MID 60S WHILE IN ADVANCE OF THE FRNTL BNDRY TEMPS CONTINUE IN THE UPR 70S TO LWR 80S. LN OF TSTMS CONTS TO ADV TO THE E AROUND 20 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS LIFTING NE AROUND 40 MPH. MDLS SEEM TO HAVE INITIALIZED CLOSE... WITH ETA SOL THRU THE 48 HR PACKAGE LOOKING A LTL BETTER THAN EITHER NGM OR AVN. SHRTWV ENERGY KICKING THRU AREA THIS AFTN... STRONG LOW LVL UNIDIRECTIONAL JET AROUND 45 KTS W/ DIRECTIONAL CONVERGENCE AND UPR LVL SUPPORT TO CONT TO DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE ALTHOUGH BEST ENERGY TO LIFT NEWD. GUID SEEMS WAY TO SLOW WITH HNDLG OF FRNTL SYS MOVEMENT. OVR NGHT TEMPS XPCD NEAR 60 SOUTHERN AREAS UPR 50S NRN AREAS. RAIN ENDING ACRS SE TX AROUND MIDNIGHT AND WOULD SUGGEST KEEPING POPS LOW AROUND 20 PERCENT OR LESS. WOULD SUGGEST SAT FIRST ZONE PD WORDING SOMETHING LIKE... FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. FOR LA...AS MAIN DYNAMICS LIFT NE WOULD TRY TO TAPER PRECIP FROM THE SOUTH TWRDS THE NORTH. RATIN ENDING TWRDS SUNRISE. PRELIM LCH 60/76/55 300 LFT 64/78/55 410 AEX 58/75/54 420 BPT 60/77/53 200 K. KUYPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 51 min |
| Nov 1, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 33 min |
| Nov 1, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.