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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 12, 1998Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 12, 1998, 1:23 AM CST for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 1998, 1:23 AM CST (07:23 UTC)
Expired
Jan 12, 1998, 2:10 AM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Allen Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 11, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-01-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-01-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

377 
WFUS1 KLCH 120725 RRA
TORLCH
LAC003-120810-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
123 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 210 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA

   ...ALLEN PARISH

AT 122 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF MITTIE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH. THE CITY OF OAKDALE IS 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 12, 1:05 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard50 min
Jan 12, 1:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline33 min
Jan 12, 2:11 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHAllen29 min
Jan 12, 2:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline45 min
Jan 12, 2:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline117 min
Jan 12, 2:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard117 min
Jan 12, 2:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAvoyelles62 min
Jan 12, 3:13 AM CSTTornado WarningLCHEvangeline47 min
Jan 12, 3:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSaint Landry62 min
Jan 12, 4:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCalcasieu61 min
Jan 12, 4:52 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline4 hr
Jan 12, 5:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard4 hr
Jan 12, 5:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHSaint Landry2 hr
Jan 12, 7:01 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHCalcasieu, Jefferson Davis119 min
Jan 12, 7:47 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHSaint Landry118 min
Jan 12, 8:11 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAcadia119 min
Jan 12, 9:02 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis3 hr
Jan 12, 9:02 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu3 hr
Jan 12, 9:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAcadia, Saint Landry2 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.