Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1999, 10:41 PM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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 8, 1999, 10:41 PM CST (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1999, 11:10 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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
- 941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 14.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 090449 COR TORLCH LAC097-090510- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1041 PM CST MON MAR 8 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. LANDRY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1110 PM CST * AT 1037 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES NORTH OF OPELOUSAS OR 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LE MOYEN MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LE MOYEN BY 1110 PM 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.
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 Mar 8, 8:34 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 8:34 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 834 PM CST MON MAR 8 1999 WITH 8 PM TEMPERATURES AT LUFKIN AT 57 DEGREES...LOOKS LIKE LOWS IN HARDIN...TYLER...JASPER...AND NEWTON COUNTIES TEXAS WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 45 AND 50 TONIGHT. PRECIPITATION IS ALSO DIMINISHING IN THE SAME AREA SO NEED TO LOWER POPS FROM CURRENT 90 PERCENT THERE. MINOR COSMETIC CHANGES NEEDED ELSEWHERE IN ZONES.
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.