Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1987, 2:24 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1987, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1987, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 697 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBPT 161946
SVRBPT
TXC245-361-162030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
ISSUED BY HOUSTON TX
242 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
...JEFFERSON...ORANGE
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BEAUMONT TO
VIDOR TO ORANGE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL BE CROSSING LAKE SABINE IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, Jun 16, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 115 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987 A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO BEAUREGARD AND NORTHWEST CALCASIEU PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL BE NEARING VINTON... SULPHUR...AND LAKE CHARLES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW PLACES MAY TAKE PLACE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. OTHER PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN SPREAD EAST FROM THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY AND BATON ROUGE TO GREATER THAN 100 MILES.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 115 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987 A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO BEAUREGARD AND NORTHWEST CALCASIEU PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL BE NEARING VINTON... SULPHUR...AND LAKE CHARLES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW PLACES MAY TAKE PLACE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:48 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 145 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987 A LINE OF NUMEROUS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM KOUNTZE TO SILSBEE IN HARDIN COUNTY ACROSS SOUTHERN JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING SLOWING TOWARD THE SOUTH. HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE MOVINGm INTO ORANGE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT SOME FLOODING OF STREETS..LOW LYING AREAS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED. OTHER STSTEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED WHEN NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 145 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987 A LINE OF NUMEROUS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM KOUNTZE TO SILSBEE IN HARDIN COUNTY ACROSS SOUTHERN JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING SLOWING TOWARD THE SOUTH. HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING pINTO ORANGE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT SOME FLOODING OF STREETS..LOW LYING AREAS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED. OTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED WHEN NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 95 min |
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.