Alert archive / Louisiana / 1998
Weather alerts in Louisiana, May 1998
37 weather alerts in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 199819 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 46 min |
| May 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Natchitoches and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 63 min |
| May 3, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 47 min |
| May 3, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 47 min |
| May 3, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 47 min |
| May 3, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 49 min |
| May 3, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 49 min |
| May 3, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 3, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 47 min |
| May 3, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 51 min |
| May 3, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 47 min |
| May 3, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Red River | 47 min |
| May 3, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 30 min |
| May 3, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 32 min |
| May 3, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 48 min |
| May 3, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 49 min |
| May 3, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 5 hr |
| May 3, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, East Carroll and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 25 min |
| May 26, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 64 min |
| May 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 50 min |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Red River, Webster | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 48 min |
| May 27, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 49 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, LaSalle, Madison and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 48 min |
| May 28, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 35 min |
| May 28, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 48 min |
| May 28, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 32 min |
| May 28, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 48 min |
| May 28, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Tensas | 33 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 | 30 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caddo Parish8
- Bossier Parish7
- Claiborne Parish6
- Webster Parish6
- Bienville Parish5
- Red River Parish5
- Morehouse Parish4
- Richland Parish4
- East Carroll Parish4
- Madison Parish4
- Ouachita Parish4
- West Carroll Parish4
- De Soto Parish3
- Lincoln Parish3
- Tensas Parish3
- Pointe Coupee Parish3
- Natchitoches Parish2
- Vernon Parish2
- Avoyelles Parish2
- Caldwell Parish2
- Catahoula Parish2
- Concordia Parish2
- Franklin Parish2
- Jackson Parish2
- LaSalle Parish2
- Rapides Parish2
- Union Parish2
- Allen Parish2
- Beauregard Parish2
- Calcasieu Parish2
- Cameron Parish2
- Jefferson Davis Parish2
- East Baton Rouge Parish2
- West Feliciana Parish2
- Sabine Parish1
- Grant Parish1
- Winn Parish1
- Acadia Parish1
- East Feliciana Parish1
- Evangeline 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.