Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
240 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8AM CST THAT INCLUDES THE
FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...VERNON...BEAUREGARD...
CALCASIEU...CAMERON...AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON
PARISH...

...THE TORNADO WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...GRANT AND RAPIDES...

AT 227 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH THUNDERSTORMS
IN EAST TEXAS FROM A HIGH ISLAND TEXAS...BEAUMONT...JASPER...SAN
AUGUSTINE LINE TO WELL WEST OF HOUSTON...LAKE LIVINGSTON...AND LUFKIN.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MIXED IN WITH THE RAIN NEAR
CONROE AND LAKE LIVINGSTON.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

IN LOUISIANA...WIDELY SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED FROM
NEAR WINNFIELD TO THE ALEXANDRIA AREA AND IN THE JENA AREA.

THE LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTOzRMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST
AND WILL BRING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TO SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA LATER THIS MORNING.

PERSONS THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD MONITOR THIS
DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
345 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8AM CST FOR MUCH OF
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 330 AM...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF LUFKIN
...TO LAKE LIVINGSTON...TO THE HOUSTON AREA...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF
FREEPORT.   THE LINE APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

RADAR ALSO SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH THUNDERSTORMS
IN EAST TEXAS FROM A GALVESTON...KOUNTZE...TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR
LINE TO WELL WEST OF HOUSTON...LUFKIN...AND SAN AUGUSTINE.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MIXED IN WITH THE RAIN
BETWEEN JASPER AND LAKE LIVINGSTON.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN WERE SHOWN ALONG THE TEXAS/LOUISIANA
BORDER FROM WEST OF DEQUINCY TO SABINE PASS...IN THE COASTAL WATERS
SOUTH OF SABINE PASS...AND IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN ALSO LINGERED BETWEEN LEESVILLE AND
WINNFIELD AND BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND MONROE.

MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
445 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 8AM CST.

AT 435AM CST RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS FROM SAM RAYBURN..
WOODVILLE..SILSBEE TO HIGH ISLAND.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING INTO
BEAUMONT FROM THE WEST.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 TO
40 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS PRODUCED SOME GUSTY WINDS EARLIER THIS
MORNING.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
455 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8AM CST FOR MUCH OF
SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 430 AM...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...WAS SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 15 MILES EAST OF LUFKIN TO
20 MILES WEST OF BEAUMONT TO JUST NORTH OF GALVESTON.  THE LINE WAS
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

RADAR ALSO SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH THUNDERSTORMS
FROM THE COAST BETWEEN FREEPORT TEXAS AND SABINE PASS TO NORTH OF
LUFKIN TEXAS...AND TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN IN EAST TEXAS
BETWEEN BEAUMONT AND JASPER.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN CONTINUED IN LOUISIANA FROM THE COASTAL
WATERS SOUTH OF CAMERON NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN LOUISIANA TO NEAR
MANSFIELD AND WINNFIELD.

MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
605 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

THE TORNADO WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 630AM CST.

AT 605AM CST RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS LAKE SABINE
AND ORANGE AND EXTENDING NORTHWARD ALONG THE SABINE RIVER.  THE
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

NUMEROUS STORMS CONTINUE OFFSHORE WITHIN 50 MILES OF THE COASTLINE.
A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL CONTdINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

THERE HAS BEEN NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE WIND DAMAGE IN
FANNETT TEXAS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
645 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON TODAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...ACADIA...ALLEN...BEAUREGARD...
CALCASIEU...CAMERON...EVANGELINE...JEFFERSON DAVIS...LAFAYETTE...
VERMILION...AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION
PARISHES.

...THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA OR FOR GRANT AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...

...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR THE
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO VERMILION BAY...

AT 635 AM...NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR LEESVILLE TO THE LAKE CHARLES AND JENNINGS AREAS
TO THE COAST FROM SABINE PASS TO WHITE LAKE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

RAIN CONTINUED TO COVER MOST OF EAST TEXAS AND THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS
OF LOUISIANA.  THE RAIN WAS SHOWN FROM A LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA LINE
INTO TEXAS TO NEAR HOUSTON...LUFKIN...AND SAN AUGUSTINE.

IN THE GULF...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING
IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF SABINE PASS...CAMERON...AND HIGH ISLAND
TEXAS.  AN ALMOST SOLID AREA OF RAIN EXTENDED FROM THE COAST TO 70
MILES OFFSHORE FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO VERMILION BAY.
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THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.