Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 1998, 9:06 AM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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 26, 1998, 9:06 AM CST (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 10:10 AM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:08 AM CST | Tornado F1 | St Landry, LA | |
| Feb 26, 9:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Moreauville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 261506 RRA TORLCH LAC009-039-261610- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 906 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...AVOYELLES PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA ...EVANGELINE PARISH AT 900 AM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR BAYOU CHICOT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. BUNKIE AND COTTONPORT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. ERICKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 7:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 60 min |
| Feb 26, 7:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 60 min |
| Feb 26, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 62 min |
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.