Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

Jan 21, 1998, 3:08 PM CST (21:08 UTC)

Expired

Jan 21, 1998, 3:55 PM CST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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TTAA00 KLCH 212108 RRA
SVRLCH
TXC241-457-212155-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
308 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 355 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS

   ...JASPER COUNTY
   ...TYLER COUNTY

AT 302 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF FRED IN SOUTHEAST
TYLER COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE TOWNS
OF FRED...SPURGER AND MAGNOLIA SPRINGS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES YOUR
AREA...REMAIN CALM...MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS...SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

&

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 21, 2:45 PM CST, 23 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
245 PM CST WED JAN 21 1998

WILL NEED TO MAKE THIS QUICK WITH A TORNADO WATCH BEING ISSUED FOR
THE SE TX AND SW LA ZONES. LAST FEW VOLUME SCANS ARE SHOWING CNVTN
BECOMING MORE ORGANIZED BETWEEN BPT AND HOU WHERE THE BEST MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE AND SURFCACE LI/S OF -4 TO -8 EXIST. THE RAPID
DESTABILIZATION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF STRONG MOISTURE CONVECTION AND
DAYTIME HEATING...WITH SFC TEMPS IN THE LOWER 70S AND DWPTS IN THE
LOWER AND MID 60S. LCH VWP SHOWS SOME TURNING IN THE LOW-LEVELS
BETWEEN THE SFC AND 5 KFT. MODIFYING THE 12Z LCH SOUNDING WITH THE
20Z SFC OB PRODUCES A CAPE NEAR 2000 J/KG AND A BEST LI OF -4. IT
APPEARS THAT WARM FRONT ALONG SE TX THIS MORNING HAS MORE OR LESS
MERGED WITH THE STATIONARY FRONT...LOCATED IN A LINE FROM TXK TO TYR
TO CLL. MODELS INDICATE MID/UPPER LEVEL TROF GRADUALLY SHIFTING
EASTWARD A VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE ROUNDS THE BASE OF TROF THE NEXT
24H. THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A WEAK SUB TROP JET MAX...PWS OF
1.2 TO 1.5...850 MB LOW-LEVEL JET...AND A SLOW MOVING FRONTAL
BOUNDARY ALL POINT TO A HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT TONIGHT AND EARLY
THURSDAY. QPF AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES LOOK REASONABLE WITH
ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 4 INCHES. EXPECT FRONTAL PASSAGE IN SE TX
AND SW LA NEAR NOONTIME THURSDAY AND ACROSS S CEN AND E CEN LA
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON.

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BPT 65/66/42/50 +6(EARLY)10
LCH 65/66/42/50 +710
LFT 64/65/45/50 8820
AEX 59/62/40/49 9820

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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.