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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1998, 6:15 AM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 26, 1998, 6:15 AM CST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1998, 6:45 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 6:30 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Silsbee, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 Jan 26, 2:42 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 2:42 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 242 AM CST MON JAN 26 1998 VIGOROUS 5H S/W WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE LOWER MS VALLEY TODAY AS 90 KT 3H JET MAX DIVES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INTO THE LOWER MS VALLEY. THIS WILL CREATE STRONG UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. AT 08Z SFC COLD FRONT WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL TX WITH PREFRONTAL TROF JUST OUT AHEAD OF IT. EXPECT COLD FRONT TO PUSH INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS AROUND 18Z AND EXIT THE SE PORTION OF THE FA BY 03Z TUESDAY. WITH STRONG UVV BEING PRODUCED BY THE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS AND WITH AMS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE...THERE WILL BE THE POSSIBLITY OF SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. WOULD NOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED SVR TSRA WITH LIS FORECASTED TO FALL TO AROUND -5 ACROSS SOUTHERN LA BY AFTERNOON. AFTER FROPA...SKIES WILL CLR OUT RATHER NICELY. 10 LCH 61/45/65 800 AEX 57/41/63 800 LFT 60/44/63 800 BPT 63/44/66 800
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 5:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 27 min |
| Jan 26, 6:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 64 min |
| Jan 26, 6:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 64 min |
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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.