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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 22, 1999Jasper County, Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 9:55 AM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. 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 22, 1999, 9:55 AM CST (15:55 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:58 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 22, 10:30 AM CST	Tornado F0	Call, TX
Jan 22, 10:30 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Kirbyville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 221554 RRA
TORLCH
TXC241-351-221700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
955 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS
  NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 AM CST

* AT 953 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  KIRBYVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  KIRBYVILLE BY 1000 AM CST
  ECLIPSE BY 1000 AM CST
  BON AMI BY 1000 AM CST
  ROGANVILLE BY 1010 AM CST
  NEWTON BY 1020 AM CST


IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

K. KUYPER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 9:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	77 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.