Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1987, 8:42 AM CST for Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1987, 8:42 AM CST (14:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1987, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Acadia, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 KLCH 151443 SVRLCH LAC001-039-113-151515- BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 842 AM CST SUN FEB 15 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...ACADIA...EVANGELINE...VERMILION. AT 915 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...FROM NORTHWEST OF VILLE PLATTE TO NEAR CROWLEY...AND OVER SOUTHERN VERMILION PARISH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORECEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
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, Feb 15, 4:42 AM CST, 4 hours before
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, Feb 15, 4:55 AM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
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, Feb 15, 6:07 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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, Feb 15, 6:54 AM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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. ` THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Local storm report, Feb 15, 8:36 AM CST, 6 minutes before
SEVERE STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1425 CST SUN FEB 15 1987
0634 AM CST CONFIRMED TORNADO
1 MILE S SULPHUR, WESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH
AT ROSEMONT TRAILER PARK ON CARLYSS ROAD..
MOBILE HOMES BADLY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED..
1 FATALITY AN ELDERLY WOMAN.
LA HWY 27S..MARINER WITH MANY BOATS AND MOTORS
DAMAGED AND STREWN ABOUT.
REPORT CALLED IN BY CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFFS
DEPT. AT 0634 TORNADO APPARENTLY OCCURRED
SHORTLY BEFORE THIS TIME..ALSO REPORTED BY
STATE POLICE TROOP D
REPORTS RECD BY WSO LAKE CHARLES AT 0700 CST.
NNNNLocal storm report, Feb 15, 8:40 AM CST, 2 minutes before
SEVERE STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1425 CST SUN FEB 15 1987
0634 AM CST CONFIRMED TORNADO
1 MILE S SULPHUR, WESTERN CALCASIEU PARISH
AT ROSEMONT TRAILER PARK ON CARLYSS ROAD..
MOBILE HOMES BADLY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED..
1 FATALITY AN ELDERLY WOMAN.
LA HWY 27S..MARINER WITH MANY BOATS AND MOTORS
DAMAGED AND STREWN ABOUT.
REPORT CALLED IN BY CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFFS
DEPT. AT 0634 TORNADO APPARENTLY OCCURRED
SHORTLY BEFORE THIS TIME..ALSO REPORTED BY
STATE POLICE TROOP D
REPORTS RECD BY WSO LAKE CHARLES AT 0700 CST.
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 60 min |
| Feb 15, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 60 min |
| Feb 15, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Feb 15, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Vermilion | 50 min |
| Feb 15, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.