Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

Feb 26, 1998, 7:30 AM CST (13:30 UTC)

Expired

Feb 26, 1998, 8:30 AM CST

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Cameron Parish, LA

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 261330 RRA
SVRLCH
LAC023-261430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
730 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA

   ...CAMERON PARISH

AT 730 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BEAUMONT TO SEA RIM STATE
PARK TO 25 MILES OFFSHORE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE COMMUNITIES OF JOHNSONS BAYOU...HOLLY BEACH...CAMERON...AND
HACKBERRY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE.

EXPECT WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL WITH THIS
LINE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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 TELEP@HONES...COMPUTERS...OR OTHER
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 26, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
220 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998

APPROACHING SQUALL LINE WILL AFFECT N PORTIONS OF FA AND MAY BUILD
SOUTHWARD AS IT MOVES EAST. ALTHOUGH CURRENT RADAR TRENDS NOT SHOWING
ANY SOUTHWARD BUILDING. SVR WIND GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL A POSSIBILITY
AS THE LINE MOVES THROUGH. KLCH VWP SHOWING 45 TO 50 KT SE FLOW AT
2 KFT. LATEST SFC ANALYSIS INDICATING DW PTS IN LOWER 60S AHEAD OF
LINE...PROVIDING AN ABUNDANCE OF LLM. SFC LOW WILL WORK NE UP TX
COAST LATER THIS MORNING AS SFC TROF PUSHES EAST.

KHGX RADAR SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BACK TO THE SW BEHIND
THE LINE AS ADDITIONAL ENERGY REMAINS BEHIND LEAD SHRT WV. FOR THIS
REASON WILL INCLUDE SCT POPS FOR BPT AREA FOR MORN ACTIVITY. IN
AGREEMENT WITH 94E...WHICH SHOWS FLASH FLOOD THREAT IN CEN LA
AND NORTHWARD WHICH IS IN AXIS OF BEST DYNAMICS COUPLED WITH DEEP
MOISTURE. DRYING WILL OCCUR BEHIND SFC TROF LATER THIS AFT. S PORTIONS
OF LA WILL LIKELY SEE BEST RAIN CHC LATER IN THE MORNING AS PACIFIC
FRONT MOVES THROUGH.  HIGH TEMPS SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE 70S IN BREEZY
W FLOW THIS AFT. ANOTHER SFC TROF WILL APPROACH NW PORTIONS OF FA FRIDAY
NIGHT AND MAY ACT AS FOCUS FOR A FEW SHWRS IF ENOUGH MOISTURE IS PRESENT.

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BPT 76/43/65 600
LCH 75/44/64 700
LFT 75/45/64 700
AEX 73/42/64 800

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
730 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

730  AM    JEFFERSON CITY            TX   60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/26/98   JEFFERSON

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.