Alert archive / Louisiana / Rapides Parish

Weather alerts in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 2013

139 weather alerts in 2013, 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 139
Warnings: 42
Watches: 18
Advisories: 26
Busiest month: February22 alerts
Busiest day: October 31, 201310 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 3 tornado warnings covering Rapides Parish in 2013 had a tornado report inside them.

Rapides Parish, 2013

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	3	0	100%	0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	15	3	80%	9	67%	28 min
Flash flood warnings	7	3	57%	3	100%	112 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Lake Charles, LA: tornado warnings	21	4	81%	14	43%	13 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: severe thunderstorm warnings	93	28	70%	84	54%	22 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: flash flood warnings	32	19	41%	49	78%	112 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, 8:48 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	22 days
Jan 8, 5:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	58 hr
Jan 9, 6:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Jan 9, 8:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Jan 9, 11:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Jan 10, 2:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Jan 10, 5:35 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Jan 10, 6:11 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Jan 10, 11:36 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	9 min
Jan 10, 11:54 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	56 hr
Jan 11, 11:24 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	6 hr
Jan 12, 5:01 AM CST	Flood Watch	LCH	59 hr
Jan 12, 6:34 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 days
Jan 23, 3:35 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	12 hr
Jan 29, 4:05 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	16 hr
Jan 30, 12:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	60 min
Jan 30, 4:33 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	13 hr
Feb 6, 1:11 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	8 hr
Feb 6, 9:54 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	6 hr
Feb 10, 6:20 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Feb 10, 6:58 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 10, 8:51 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	19 days
Feb 10, 10:19 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Feb 10, 11:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	57 min
Feb 10, 12:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	57 min
Feb 11, 12:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	54 min
Feb 11, 1:01 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Feb 11, 1:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	55 min
Feb 18, 3:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
Feb 21, 1:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Feb 21, 3:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Feb 21, 3:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	55 min
Feb 21, 3:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	62 min
Feb 22, 1:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Feb 25, 9:25 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Feb 25, 12:26 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr
Feb 25, 1:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	55 min
Feb 25, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	65 min
Feb 25, 2:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Mar 2, 3:40 AM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	LCH	12 hr
Mar 2, 4:03 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Mar 3, 3:56 PM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	26 hr
Mar 5, 4:13 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	6 hr
Mar 23, 2:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Mar 24, 4:17 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	17 hr
Mar 25, 3:30 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	LCH	12 hr
Mar 25, 3:32 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Mar 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Mar 30, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr
Mar 30, 5:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Mar 31, 11:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	36 min
Mar 31, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	58 min
Mar 31, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 31, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	45 min
Mar 31, 2:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	58 min
Apr 9, 5:07 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	24 hr
Apr 10, 4:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Apr 10, 9:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 11, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	9 days
Apr 18, 3:50 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	30 hr
Apr 18, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	32 min
Apr 24, 4:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Apr 29, 5:50 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	3 hr
Apr 29, 9:06 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	47 min
May 2, 11:31 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	17 hr
May 3, 4:40 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
May 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 10, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	55 min
May 10, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	53 min
May 10, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	62 min
May 10, 4:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	30 hr
May 16, 5:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
May 21, 7:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 21, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 21, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	50 min
May 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	2 hr
May 23, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	57 min
Jun 2, 3:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	79 min
Jun 6, 1:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	115 min
Jun 6, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	56 min
Jun 6, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	53 min
Jun 6, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	53 min
Jun 8, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	59 min
Jun 9, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	37 min
Jun 9, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	58 min
Jun 18, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	84 min
Jun 18, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	63 min
Jun 20, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	59 min
Jun 20, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	28 min
Jun 21, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	35 min
Jul 14, 1:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 15, 1:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 18, 11:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Jul 18, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	33 min
Jul 18, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	55 min
Jul 19, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	24 min
Jul 24, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	83 min
Jul 24, 5:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	80 min
Jul 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 27, 2:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Aug 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	82 min
Sep 20, 3:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	14 hr
Sep 20, 10:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	110 min
Oct 3, 6:45 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	2 hr
Oct 12, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	26 min
Oct 12, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	62 min
Oct 30, 4:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	26 hr
Oct 31, 6:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Oct 31, 7:32 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Oct 31, 8:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Oct 31, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	53 min
Oct 31, 10:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	13 min
Oct 31, 10:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Oct 31, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	59 min
Oct 31, 11:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	3 hr
Oct 31, 12:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	4 hr
Oct 31, 2:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	8 hr
Oct 31, 11:56 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	10 hr
Nov 11, 2:09 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	37 hr
Nov 13, 3:05 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	5 hr
Nov 13, 3:05 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	29 hr
Nov 25, 8:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	4 days
Nov 26, 4:10 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	29 hr
Nov 26, 3:22 PM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	LCH	13 hr
Nov 27, 4:01 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	28 hr
Dec 2, 9:38 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	11 hr
Dec 21, 5:24 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	13 hr
Dec 21, 7:57 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Dec 21, 9:46 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Dec 21, 12:30 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	60 min
Dec 21, 3:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	54 min
Dec 21, 4:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	27 min
Dec 21, 4:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	63 min
Dec 21, 4:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	32 min
Dec 21, 5:22 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 21, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	36 min
Dec 22, 12:07 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	7 hr
Dec 29, 3:12 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	5 hr

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	15
Tornado Warning	3
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	4
Tornado Watch	6
Mesoscale Discussion	26
Special Weather Statement	27
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	5
Flash Flood Warning	7
River Flood Warning	4
Flash Flood Watch	4
Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	6
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	1
Hard Freeze Watch	2
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	11

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2012 2014

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.