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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1999, 8:02 AM CST for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 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 13, 1999, 8:02 AM CST (14:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1999, 9:05 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Evangeline Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 13, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLCH 131406 RRA TORLCH LAC039-131505- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 802 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EVANGELINE PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 905 AM CST * AT 800 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VILLE PLATTE OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAMOU MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MAMOU BY 820 AM CST VILLE PLATTE BY 835 AM CST BAYOU CHICOT BY 840 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.
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 13, 1:15 AM CST, 6 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:15 AM CST, 6 hours 47 minutes before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 115 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999 SHORT TERM...SVR WX/HVY RAINFALL GOOD BET ACROSS ENTIRE CWA UNTIL FRONT PASSES. CURRENTLY COMPUTED LI -4 OR GREATER...HELICITY VALUES NEAR 350 AND CAPE BETWEEN 1200-1600 OVER SW LA AND SE TX. WILL FOLLOW MESO ETA SOLUTION FOR PASSAGE OF FRONT...WHICH SHOULD BE NEAR BPT AT 12Z...AEX TO LFT LINE AT 15Z AND EAST OF CWA AROUND 18Z. GOOD CAA BEHIND FRONT WILL DROP TEMPS DURING THE DAY. 540 THICKNESS DROPS INTO LAKES AREA OF TX ACROSS CENTRAL LA BY 12Z SUN. WILL KEEP CLOUDS IN FORECAST THRU SUN AFTN AS THIS WILL BE THE TIME 850 TROF MOVES EAST OF AREA AND LOWER RH MOVES IN. COASTAL FLOOD WATCH WILL BE DROPPED AS TIDES RUNNING BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS AND NEXT HIGH TIDES WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL AFT WINDS HAVE SHIFTED TO THE NW. BPT CE 68 (FALL 57)/43/53/34 6(EARLY)000 LCH CE 66 (FALL 56)/43/53/33 8(EARLY)000 LFT CE 65 (FALL 57)/45/53/33 9(MORNING)000 AEX CE 62 (FALL 52)/40/50/29 9(MORNING)000 7
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 13, 2:22 AM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
222 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1225 AM 5 N BURKVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/13/99 NEWTON SEVERAL POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY THE SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.Local storm report, Mar 13, 4:28 AM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
428 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 AM 8 N JASPER TX FLOODING
03/13/99 JASPER COUNTY ROADS 29 AND 23
FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.
REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.
0300 AM 5 NE WOODVILLE TX FLOODING
03/13/99 TYLER US 190 BETWEEN WOODVILLE AND
DAM B IMPASSABLE. REPORTED
BY MEDIA.Local storm report, Mar 13, 4:28 AM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
428 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 AM 8 N JASPER TX FLOODING
03/13/99 JASPER COUNTY ROADS 29 AND 23
FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.
REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.
0300 AM 5 NE WOODVILLE TX FLOODING
03/13/99 TYLER US 190 BETWEEN WOODVILLE AND
DAM B IMPASSABLE. REPORTED
BY MEDIA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 8:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 47 min |
| Mar 13, 12:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 46 min |
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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.