Alert archive / Louisiana / 1998
Weather alerts in Louisiana, April 1998
56 weather alerts in April 1998, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 56
- Warnings
- 47
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 28, 199829 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River, Webster | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 65 min |
| Apr 17, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 19 min |
| Apr 18, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 64 min |
| Apr 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto, East Carroll, Franklin and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Winn | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia, Tensas | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Iberia, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 63 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 40 |
| Tornado Warning | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bienville Parish6
- Franklin Parish6
- Madison Parish6
- Ouachita Parish6
- Tensas Parish6
- De Soto Parish5
- Red River Parish5
- Winn Parish5
- Saint Helena Parish5
- Tangipahoa Parish5
- Washington Parish5
- Catahoula Parish5
- East Feliciana Parish4
- East Baton Rouge Parish4
- Concordia Parish4
- Avoyelles Parish4
- Bossier Parish3
- Claiborne Parish3
- Webster Parish3
- Caldwell Parish3
- East Carroll Parish3
- Jackson Parish3
- Lincoln Parish3
- Morehouse Parish3
- Richland Parish3
- West Carroll Parish3
- Livingston Parish3
- West Baton Rouge Parish3
- Lafourche Parish3
- Caddo Parish2
- Union Parish2
- Ascension Parish2
- Saint Tammany Parish2
- West Feliciana Parish2
- Lafayette Parish2
- Saint Martin Parish2
- Iberville Parish2
- Grant Parish2
- LaSalle Parish2
- Cameron Parish2
21 more counties
- Allen Parish2
- Evangeline Parish2
- Iberia Parish2
- Vermilion Parish2
- Plaquemines Parish1
- Saint Bernard Parish1
- Sabine Parish1
- Natchitoches Parish1
- Rapides Parish1
- Calcasieu Parish1
- Acadia Parish1
- Jefferson Davis Parish1
- Pointe Coupee Parish1
- Saint Landry Parish1
- Assumption Parish1
- Orleans Parish1
- Saint Charles Parish1
- Saint James Parish1
- Saint John the Baptist Parish1
- St. Mary Parish1
- Jefferson Parish1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.