Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1998, 4:43 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 19, 1998, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1998, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Glenmora, LA |
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 215 PM CST THU FEB 19 1998 SFC TROF LOCATED ACROSS EXT SE TX THIS AFT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST THIS EVENING. DRYING WILL OCCUR BEHIND THIS FEATURE AS WINDS BECOME NW/N. VORT MAX WILL BE LOCATED ALONG SE TX/LA BORDER AT 20/00Z...ASSOCIATED COLD POOL ALOFT WILL DESTABILIZE ATMOS...BUT DO NOT THINK THERE WILL BE ENOUGH LLM TO PRODUCE ANYTHING MORE THAN WIDELY SCT TSTM ACTIVITY ACROSS FA DURING THE EVENING HOURS. HAIL A GOOD POSSIBILITY WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS AS 500 MB TEMPS ARE AROUND -20 DEGREES. SUBSIDENCE WILL DOMINATE REGION THROUGH REST OF PD. NEXT STORM SYSTEM LOCATED ACROSS S NEW MEX/N MEXICO AT 48 HRS WILL LIKELY AFFECT AREA ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE...WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR. 1 BPT 46/68/44/70 2000 LCH 46/68/42/70 2000 LFT 46/68/43/70 2000 AEX 44/66/40/68 2000
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 19, 3:24 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
324 PM CST THU FEB 19 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
313 PM LEESVILLE LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
02/19/98 VERNON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN
LEESVILLE DURING
THUNDERSTORM BY SHERIFFS.Local storm report, Feb 19, 4:37 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
437 PM CST THU FEB 19 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
424 PM DERIDDER LA 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/19/98 BEAUREGARD PEA AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED IN AND NEAR
DERIDDER BY EMERGENCY
MANAGER AND BY FLIGHT
SERVICE.Local storm report, Feb 19, 4:37 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
437 PM CST THU FEB 19 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
424 PM DERIDDER LA 0.50 INCH HAIL
02/19/98 BEAUREGARD PEA AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED IN AND NEAR
DERIDDER BY EMERGENCY
MANAGER AND BY FLIGHT
SERVICE.Local storm report, Feb 19, 4:41 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
441 PM CST THU FEB 19 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
430 PM PITKIN LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
02/19/98 VERNON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN
PITKIN BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 62 min |
| Feb 19, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.