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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1999, 2:58 PM CST for Iberia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 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
- Jan 22, 1999, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iberia Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2:59 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | New Iberia, LA | |
| Jan 22, 2:59 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | New Iberia, 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 22, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST, 22 minutes before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 236 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 SQUALL LINE CONTINUES TO PUSH ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME REPORTS OF HAIL/WIND DAMAGE AND TORNADOES. 88-D SHOWING LEWP DEVELOPING OVER ACADIA AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES. SEVERAL ROTATING CELLS INDICATED...CLOSELY MONITORING SITUATION. PER SPC...NEW TOR WW OVER EXTREME SE PARISHES. VWP AT LCH SHOWING SOME LLVL DRYING TAKING PLACE AS WINDS ARE WEST AROUND 20 KT AT 1K. LOOKING AT BIG PICTURE...IR/WV LOOP SHOWS UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL TX MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ATTM. SFC ANALYSIS PLACES COLD FRONT IN CENTRAL TX WITH PREFRONTAL TROF WELL IN ADVANCE KICKING OFF SVR WX OVER BAYOU STATE. DEWPOINTS IN EAST TX DROPPING INTO UPPER 30S TO NR 50...SO SOME LLVL DRYING TAKING PLACE AS WELL BEHIND PREFRONTAL TROUGH. VIS STLT SHOWS CLEARING SKIES OVER SE TX WITH WRAPAROUND CLDS COVERING ALL EXTREME S/SE TX. FINALLY...THE FCST. ETA/AVN/NGM DIFFER SLIGHTLY IN SOLNS...BUT WILL GO WITH ETA SOLN. SHORTWAVE WILL EJECT NE OUT OF TX INTO NE STATES BY END OF PD WITH HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING INTO MS VALLEY. NEXT SHORT WAVE GETS CARVED OUT OVER NW STATES AS MORE ENERGY DIVES DOWN INTO E PAC. BACK HOME THOUGH...ETA KEEPS MSTR FIELDS HIGHER THAN NGM. LIKE THIS SOLN SINCE RESIDUAL LLVL MSTR AND WRAPAROUND CLDS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS FA TONIGHT AS SFC LOW DEEPENS OVER N LA INTO MS. CF SHOULD TREK ACROSS FA BEGINNING AROUND 03Z IN NORTHWEST COUNTIES AND EXIT SE PARISHES BY 09Z. IN 2ND PERIOD...MCLDY SKIES EXPECT OVER CENTRAL LA TO PCLDY SKIES OVER REMAINDER WITH SLIGHT CLEARING LATE IN THE DAY. 3RD PERIOD...SHOULD SEE ENOUGH DRYING IN LOW/MID LVLS FOR SKIES TO FINALLY CLEAR. FFA CAN BE DROPPED FOR CENTRAL LA AS CONVECTION HAS PUSHED INTO MS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED. WENT CLOSE TO MOS NUMBERS WITH A FEW ADJUSTMENTS. 13 LCH BU 046 058/040 064 000 LFT BU 047 059/040 064 000 AEX EU 045 054/037 065 000 BPT BU 045 060/041 066 000
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 22, 11:03 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1103 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1102 AM NORTH OF LEESVILLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/22/99 VERNONLocal storm report, Jan 22, 2:22 PM CST, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
222 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
200 PM OPELOUSAS LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
01/22/99 ST LANDRYLocal storm report, Jan 22, 2:25 PM CST, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
225 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
105 PM ESTHERWOOD LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
01/22/99 ACADIALocal storm report, Jan 22, 2:35 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
235 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1135 AM DEVILLE LA 0.88 INCH HAIL
01/22/99 RAPIDESLocal storm report, Jan 22, 2:44 PM CST, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 10:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 11:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 9:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 77 min |
| Jan 22, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 65 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.