Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 12, 1998, 3:13 AM CST for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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, 3:13 AM CST (09:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1998, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Evangeline Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 3:14 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Ville Platte, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
807 WFUS1 KLCH 120915 RRA TORLCH LAC039-121000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 313 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA ...EVANGELINE PARISH AT 310 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF BAYOU CHICOT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. 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 COVER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 1:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 50 min |
| 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, 3:53 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.