Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 1999, 11:44 PM CST for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 1, 1999, 11:44 PM CST (05:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Nome, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 020546 RRA TORLCH TXC245-020645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1144 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 1245 AM CST * AT 1143 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAUMONT OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NOME MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE NEAR NOME BY 1157 PM CST CHINA BY MIDNIGHT CST FANNET BY MIDNIGHT CST NORTHERN BEAUMONT BY 1220 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 1, 11:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 62 min |
| Jan 2, 12:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.