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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1999, 7:58 PM CST for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 2, 1999, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1999, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
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 Mar 2, 7:37 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 7:37 PM CST, 21 minutes before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 737 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999 LINE OF STORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND FEW TORNADOES NOW EXITING SE TX ZONES. FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED BASED ON MOVEMENT OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED WATCHES WARNINGS AND WEATHER. 8
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
545 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM 7 SW BURKEVILLE TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 NEWTONLocal storm report, Mar 2, 6:19 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
619 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0612 PM 5 W BURKEVILLE TX TORNADO
03/02/99 NEWTON SHERIFF REPORTE VISUAL
SIGHTING OF TORNADO AND MANY
TREES BLOWN DOWN BEAR HWY
63/FM 1012 INTERSECTION.Local storm report, Mar 2, 6:52 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
652 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0643 PM JUNCTION LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 BEAUREGARDLocal storm report, Mar 2, 7:36 PM CST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
736 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM BOYCE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 RAPIDESLocal storm report, Mar 2, 7:55 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
855 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM 10 E JASPER TX TORNADO
03/02/99 JASPER ON THE JASPER/NEWTON CO LINE
4 HOMES DESTROYED...SEVERAL
INJURIES...IN HUFF CREEK AREA.Local storm report, Mar 2, 7:56 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
756 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM WEIL LA 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 RAPIDES NICKLE AND DIME SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER
0757 PM DEQUINCY LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 CALCASIEU REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE
0808 PM SULPHUR LA 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/02/99 CALCASIEU REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 66 min |
| Mar 2, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 64 min |
| Mar 2, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 65 min |
| Mar 2, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 11:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 64 min |
| Mar 2, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 46 min |
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.