Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 1998, 8:47 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 12, 1998, 8:47 AM CDT (13:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1998, 9:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 121346 RRA TORLCH LAC003-121440- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 847 AM CDT SAT SEP 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 940 AM CDT * AT 837 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF KINDER OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARD MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE NEAR WARD BY 837 AM CDT OAKDALE BY 849 AM CDT ELIZABETH BY 852 AM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUHSHIONS TO PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 12, 2:25 AM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:25 AM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 225 AM CDT SAT SEP 12 1998 SFC PLOT SHOWS T.D. FRANCES STILL JUST WNW OF HOUSTON AND MOVING SLOWLY NNE. WINDS ACROSS THE FA ARE GENERALLY SOUTH AT 10-15 MPH AND GUSTY WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER SPEEDS AT THE COAST. 88-D SHOWS RAINBANDS NOW MOVING OUT OF FA INTO N LA...MS...AND SE LA. LOOKING AT IR LOOP AND RADAR OUT HGX AND CRP...ONLY WEAK BANDING WITH SCATTERED TSRA INDICATED IN NW GULF. ETA AND NGM OFF IN MOVEMENT AND INTENSITY OF T.D. AVN HAS BETTER SOLUTION...TAKES SYSTEM SLOWLY NORTHWARD INTO N TX. T.D. FRANCES WILL MOVE NORTHWARD IN FLOW AROUND RIDGE OVER MIDWEST INTO SE STATES. BY END OF PD...SYSTEM WILL FILL AS RIDGE OVER SE U.S. BEGINS TO BUILD ACROSS FA. IN THE MEANTIME...FA WILL REMAIN IN DEEP TROPICAL FLOW WITH PERIODS OF TSRA. WINDS ACROSS THE NW GULF WILL BE SE/S KEEPING COASTAL FLOODING A PROBLEM AS WATER SLOWLY SUBSIDES. CURRENTLY...TIDES RUNNING 3 TO 4 FEET ABOVE ASTRONOMICAL LEVELS...WITH MANY ROADS STILL CLOSED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND CAMERON PARISH. MINOR FLOODING REPORTED IN VERMILION AND ST MARY PARISHES. QPF TOTALS REMAIN IN THE 2 TO 4 INCH CATEGORY ACROSS AREA TODAY. WITH PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL ON FRIDAY...WILL KEEP FFA UP FOR ENTIRE FA. WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE IN ZONES AND WINDS AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY. WENT A DEGREE OR TWO COOLER THAN MOS GUIDANCE DUE TO CLDS. 13 BPT 85/78/88/78 8664 LCH 85/78/89/77 7754 LFT 85/79/90/76 7754 AEX 84/74/90/75 8654
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 10:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Landry | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 9:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Sep 12, 9:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 32 min |
| Sep 12, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 2 hr |
| Sep 12, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 61 min |
| Sep 12, 2:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.