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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1998, 2:05 PM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 10, 1998, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1998, 2:40 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Jasper, TX | |
| Feb 10, 2:27 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Buna, TX |
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 10, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 102005 TORLCH TXC241-102040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 205 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS ...JASPER COUNTY AT 205 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHERE SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF JASPER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF JASPER SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW! 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 10, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 1:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 61 min |
| Feb 10, 1:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 2:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Feb 10, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 34 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.