Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 19, 1987, 2:08 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 1987, 2:08 PM CST (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 1987, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon Parish, LA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 19, 12:35 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1230PM CST TUE DEC 19 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 5PM CST FOR MOST OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST TEXAS. AT 1230PM CST A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR NACOGDOCHES TO HUNTSVILLE TO NEAR VICTORIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. EARLIER STORMS HAD PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS IN CENTRAL TEXAS. THE STORMS WILL FIRST MOVE THROUGH THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA. BOATERS ON SAM RAYBURN AND TOLEDO BEND SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTERED WATERS. MUCH LATER THIS AFTERNOON THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND THE GULF COASTAL WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Sabine, San Augustine | 54 min |
| Dec 19, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler | 50 min |
| Dec 19, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 60 min |
| Dec 19, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
| Dec 19, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 55 min |
| Dec 19, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 63 min |
| Dec 19, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, Rapides | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.