Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 1999, 3:45 AM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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 2, 1999, 3:45 AM CST (09:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 4:50 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Leonville, LA | |
| Jan 2, 4:00 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Opelousas, 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 2, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLCH 020946 RRA TORLCH LAC097-021050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 345 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 450 AM CST * AT 345 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OPELOUSAS OR 5 MILES WEST OF LEWISBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE NEAR LEDOUX BY 355 AM CST OPELOUSAS BY 400 AM CST LEONVILLE BY 405 AM CST 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 1:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 1:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 62 min |
| Jan 2, 1:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 65 min |
| Jan 2, 2:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 2:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 62 min |
| Jan 2, 3:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 66 min |
| Jan 2, 3:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 63 min |
| Jan 2, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 47 min |
| Jan 2, 4:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 66 min |
| Jan 2, 4:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia | 67 min |
| Jan 2, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.