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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 22, 1999Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 2:36 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 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: Jan 22, 1999, 2:36 PM CST (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 3:40 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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.

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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 222036 RRA
TORLCH
LAC055-222140-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 340 PM CST

* AT 235 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  SCOTT BY 238 PM CST
  LAFAYETTE BY 240 PM CST
  VATICAN BY 240 PM CST
  CARENCRO BY 245 PM CST


A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF A TORNADO
APPROACHES YOUR AREA...REMAIN CALM...MOVE TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS...SUCH AS A
BATHROOM OR CLOSET. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

K. KUYPER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 2:36 PM CST, 0 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, 10:52 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1052 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 AM    S OF SALEM                TX   TORNADO
01/22/99   NEWTON

1040 AM    EVANS                     LA   TORNADO
01/22/99   VERNON

Local storm report, Jan 22, 11:03 AM CST, 3 hours 33 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   VERNON

Local storm report, Jan 22, 11:03 AM CST, 3 hours 33 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   VERNON

Local storm report, Jan 22, 2:22 PM CST, 14 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 LANDRY

Local storm report, Jan 22, 2:25 PM CST, 11 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   ACADIA

Local storm report, Jan 22, 2:35 PM CST, 1 minute 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   RAPIDES

The office that day

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, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia	62 min
Jan 22, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	St. Mary	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.