Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 12, 1998, 1:04 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 12, 1998, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1998, 2:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Alexandria, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
695 WFUS1 KLCH 121806 RRA TORLCH LAC079-121905- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 104 PM CDT SAT SEP 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAPIDES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 205 PM CDT * AT 101 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 26 MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LONGLEAF MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE NEAR GLENMORA BY 107 PM CDT ALEXANDRIA BY 135 PM CDT PINEVILLE BY 135 PM CDT BALL BY 145 PM 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 CUSHIONS TO PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
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, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 53 min |
| 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.