Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 12, 1998, 1:05 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 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 12, 1998, 1:05 AM CST (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1998, 1:55 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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 12, 1:45 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Creek, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
295 WFUS1 KLCH 120707 RRA TORLCH LAC011-120755- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 105 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 155 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA ...BEAUREGARD PARISH AT 105 AM CST...NEXRAD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DERIDDER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR DERIDDER SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 47 min |
| Jan 12, 1:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 33 min |
| Jan 12, 2:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 29 min |
| Jan 12, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 45 min |
| Jan 12, 2:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 117 min |
| Jan 12, 2:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 117 min |
| Jan 12, 2:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 3:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 47 min |
| Jan 12, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 61 min |
| Jan 12, 4:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 2 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 7:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 118 min |
| Jan 12, 8:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 9:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 9:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 9:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Saint Landry | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.