Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1998, 3:37 PM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Nov 1, 1998, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1998, 4:10 PM CST
- In force
- 33 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 21:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 3:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirbyville, 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, 9.6 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
- 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
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 Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 7 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Nov 1, 3:26 PM CST, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
326 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION...^.
0215 PM TX WIND DAMAGE
11/01/98 TYLER SEVERAL TREES REPORTED
BLOWN DOWN.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, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.