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Weather alerts in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 2008

221 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rapides Parish and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 221
Warnings: 101
Watches: 34
Advisories: 27
Busiest month: September88 alerts
Busiest day: September 3, 200830 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

4 of 41 tornado warnings covering Rapides Parish in 2008 had a tornado report inside them; 4 of 5 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 10 minutes after it went out.

Rapides Parish, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	41	4	90%	5	80%	10 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	24	11	54%	13	69%	23 min
Flash flood warnings	13	3	77%	3	67%	138 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Lake Charles, LA: tornado warnings	150	26	83%	61	70%	12 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: severe thunderstorm warnings	166	56	66%	139	67%	22 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: flash flood warnings	47	12	74%	26	85%	86 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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	Lasted
Jan 1, 5:04 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	24 hr
Jan 1, 4:00 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	42 hr
Jan 10, 7:17 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Jan 26, 9:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	11 days
Jan 28, 4:02 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	5 hr
Jan 31, 5:51 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jan 31, 3:43 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	5 hr
Feb 3, 7:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Feb 4, 7:09 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	11 hr
Feb 5, 6:32 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	11 hr
Feb 7, 7:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	33 hr
Feb 12, 7:50 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
Feb 12, 9:53 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
Feb 12, 9:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	63 min
Feb 12, 10:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 12, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	55 min
Feb 12, 12:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	44 min
Feb 16, 1:09 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
Feb 16, 8:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 16, 8:29 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	15 days
Feb 16, 10:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Feb 16, 11:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	49 min
Feb 17, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	55 min
Feb 17, 1:33 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Feb 21, 2:51 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	24 min
Feb 21, 1:41 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 21, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	44 min
Feb 21, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	38 min
Feb 21, 7:22 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Feb 21, 8:54 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 21, 10:31 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Feb 21, 10:59 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Feb 25, 11:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Feb 26, 2:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	27 min
Feb 26, 4:21 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	17 hr
Mar 1, 5:46 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	3 hr
Mar 2, 4:41 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	15 hr
Mar 3, 10:36 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Mar 3, 1:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
Mar 3, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	50 min
Mar 3, 2:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	21 min
Mar 6, 8:08 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	47 hr
Mar 11, 10:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	4 days
Mar 16, 9:25 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	64 hr
Mar 18, 10:59 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr
Mar 18, 6:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Mar 18, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Mar 18, 10:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Mar 29, 11:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Mar 30, 6:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Mar 30, 12:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 30, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	45 min
Mar 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	58 min
Apr 4, 9:48 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Apr 4, 9:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	7 days
Apr 9, 4:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Apr 9, 9:35 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	21 hr
Apr 11, 7:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 22, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	54 min
Apr 23, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	51 min
Apr 23, 2:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
May 2, 11:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
May 3, 2:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
May 7, 5:34 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
May 7, 11:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
May 11, 1:39 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
May 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 14, 7:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
May 14, 7:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 14, 10:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
May 14, 5:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
May 15, 1:16 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 15, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	39 min
May 15, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	64 min
May 15, 5:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
May 19, 8:51 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	3 days
May 22, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	35 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 5, 3:56 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	16 hr
Jun 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	20 min
Jun 20, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	25 min
Jun 20, 5:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	117 min
Jun 21, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	52 min
Jun 24, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	40 min
Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	3 hr
Jun 28, 10:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	61 min
Jul 10, 2:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	99 min
Jul 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	51 hr
Aug 2, 12:57 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LCH	5 hr
Aug 3, 1:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	58 min
Aug 3, 10:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
Aug 3, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Aug 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	15 min
Aug 3, 4:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Aug 5, 9:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Aug 30, 6:52 PM CDT	Inland Hurricane Watch	LCH	52 hr
Aug 31, 11:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	43 hr
Aug 31, 11:41 AM CDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	LCH	38 hr
Sep 1, 9:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	8 days
Sep 1, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Sep 1, 6:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 1, 6:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 1, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	36 min
Sep 1, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	40 min
Sep 1, 8:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 1, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	47 min
Sep 1, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	47 min
Sep 1, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Sep 1, 10:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Sep 2, 1:51 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	5 hr
Sep 2, 1:55 AM CDT	Hurricane Local Statement	LCH	9 days
Sep 2, 8:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	34 hr
Sep 2, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 2, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	41 min
Sep 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 2, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	29 min
Sep 2, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 2, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	34 min
Sep 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Sep 3, 1:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 3, 2:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	28 min
Sep 3, 3:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	27 min
Sep 3, 3:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	16 min
Sep 3, 3:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Sep 3, 4:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 3, 4:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	20 min
Sep 3, 4:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 3, 5:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	35 min
Sep 3, 6:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	29 min
Sep 3, 6:21 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 3, 7:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	40 min
Sep 3, 7:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 3, 7:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	28 min
Sep 3, 8:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	30 min
Sep 3, 9:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	64 min
Sep 3, 10:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Sep 3, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 3, 12:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 3, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	28 min
Sep 3, 3:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Sep 3, 4:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Sep 3, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Sep 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	7 hr
Sep 10, 10:46 PM CDT	Inland Tropical Storm Watch	LCH	19 hr
Sep 11, 5:08 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	6 hr
Sep 11, 12:41 PM CDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	LCH	52 hr
Sep 11, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	46 hr
Sep 12, 3:52 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Sep 12, 11:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Sep 12, 12:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Sep 12, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	37 min
Sep 12, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 12, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	30 min
Sep 12, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	23 min
Sep 12, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	24 min
Sep 12, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	28 min
Sep 12, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	29 min
Sep 12, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	14 hr
Sep 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	32 min
Sep 13, 12:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Sep 13, 12:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	24 min
Sep 13, 12:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	38 min
Sep 13, 3:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 13, 4:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	34 min
Sep 13, 7:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Sep 13, 9:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	35 min
Sep 13, 9:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Sep 13, 9:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 13, 11:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	35 min
Sep 13, 12:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 13, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Sep 13, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	28 min
Sep 13, 4:22 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	8 hr
Sep 13, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Sep 13, 8:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	7 days
Sep 13, 10:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	23 min
Sep 13, 11:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Sep 14, 1:57 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Sep 14, 3:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	5 hr
Sep 14, 3:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	60 min
Sep 14, 6:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	10 hr
Sep 14, 6:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Sep 14, 8:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 14, 9:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Sep 14, 10:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Sep 14, 2:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	12 hr
Oct 7, 7:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Oct 27, 5:25 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	10 hr
Oct 28, 6:34 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	LCH	14 hr
Nov 5, 6:15 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	107 min
Nov 11, 9:19 PM CST	Flood Watch	LCH	12 hr
Nov 20, 4:30 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	4 hr
Nov 21, 3:51 AM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	LCH	13 hr
Nov 21, 3:42 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Nov 28, 11:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Nov 28, 3:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Nov 28, 5:33 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Dec 9, 7:41 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Dec 9, 9:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	32 min
Dec 9, 9:32 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Dec 9, 9:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	16 min
Dec 9, 9:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Dec 9, 10:12 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Dec 9, 10:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	32 min
Dec 9, 10:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	31 min
Dec 9, 11:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	33 min
Dec 9, 2:18 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Dec 9, 3:51 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Dec 9, 5:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Dec 10, 10:19 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	12 days
Dec 10, 3:41 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LCH	17 hr
Dec 10, 11:29 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Dec 11, 4:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Dec 13, 3:26 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	27 hr
Dec 15, 3:41 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LCH	6 hr
Dec 16, 3:24 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	20 hr
Dec 17, 3:49 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	20 hr
Dec 21, 4:42 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	13 hr
Dec 21, 12:59 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	21 hr
Dec 26, 11:32 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	18 hr
Dec 28, 9:57 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	5 days

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	24
Tornado Warning	41
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Tornado Watch	24
Mesoscale Discussion	58
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	4
Flash Flood Warning	13
River Flood Warning	11
Flash Flood Watch	5
Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	2
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	2
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Hard Freeze Warning	3
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind and dust
Lake Wind Advisory	14
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	6
Tropical
Inland Tropical Storm Warning	2
Inland Hurricane Watch	1
Inland Tropical Storm Watch	1
Hurricane Local Statement	1

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2007 2009

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.