Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 1987, 2:24 AM CST for Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 1987, 2:24 AM CST (08:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 1987, 4:20 AM CST
- In force
- 116 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 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 2220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.8
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
Local storm report, Nov 15, 10:56 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Nov 15, 11:35 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1135 PM CST SUN NOV 15 1987 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 2 AM MONDAY MORNING... AT 1125 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM JUST EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO OAKDALE TO KINDER...NEAR LEESVILLE...AND IN EAST TEXAS NEAR RAYBURN LAKE...AND BETWEEN LAKE LIVINGSTON...KOUNTZE AND LIBERTY. RAIN CONTINUED TO COVER MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN NEAR THE COAST AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO FREEPORT TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Local storm report, Nov 16, 12:13 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
ATTN SELS BPT
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1210 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987
1140 PM ... DPS LUFKIN, TX RELAYED REPORT FROM JASPER COUNTY S.O.
OF FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR GIST IN SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY AT
925 PM CST.
1142 PM ... NACOGDOCHES COUNTY S.O. REPORTED WATER ON HIGHWAY 95
BETWEEN GARRISON AND CHIRENO IN LOW SPOTS. NACOGDOCHES
CITY REPORTED 3.00 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE DUSK. PEA SIZED
HAIL NORTH AND WEST PARTS OF NACOGDOCHES AT SEVERAL
PERIODS THROUGH THIS EVENING.
DCGLocal storm report, Nov 16, 12:16 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA...C O R R E C T E D... 1215 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 BEFORE 930 PM CST...SHERIFFS OFFICE WERE OUT OF SERVICE... REPORTED LATE TO LAKE CHARLES WEATH ER OFFICE THROUGH SHERIFFS OFFICE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH...TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR OBERLIN LA IN ALLEN PARISH. ON HWY #26 WEST OF OBERLIN...2 VEHICLES DAMAGED AS TREES FELL OVER VEHICLES...PEOPLE IN VEHICLES NOT HURT.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 12:39 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1240 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 2 AM MONDAY MORNING... AT 1225 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF JENA...AND IN EAST TEXAS NEAR RAYBURN LAKE...LUFKIN... LAKE LIVINGSTON AND WOODVILLE. RAIN WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WAS SHOWN FROM SABINE PASS TO LAFAYETTE TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND SPREAD INTO EAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON TO LUFKIN TO NORTH OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE COASTAL WATERS FROM GALVESTON TO CAMERON. MOVEMENT OF T<HE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 1:50 AM CST, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 145 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 2 AM MONDAY MORNING... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND THROUGH MONDAY... AT 125 AM...RAIN WITH WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WAS SHOWN WEST OF A LINE FROM LAKE CHARLES TO VILLE PLATTE TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND SPREAD INTO EAST TEXAS TO WELL WEST OF A HOUSTON... LAKE LIVINGSTON...LUFKIN...NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR LINE. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS SHOWN NEAR JENA...JUST SOUTH OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...AND IN EAST TEXAS NEAR KIRBYVILLE AND WOODVILLE. A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWN BETWEEN BEAUMONT... GALVESTON TEXAS AND CAMERON...AND SPREAD INTO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. SINCE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS HAS ALREADY OCCURRED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL QUICKLY FLOOD POORLY DRAINED AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES AND CULVERTS. PERSONS LIVING IN THESE AREdAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE THRU FLOODED AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 25 min |
| Nov 15, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 37 min |
| Nov 16, 2:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 114 min |
| Nov 16, 10:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 46 min |
| Nov 15, 9:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 2:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 63 min |
| Nov 16, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 60 min |
| Nov 16, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen | 60 min |
| Nov 16, 7:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Grant, LaSalle, Rapides | 2 hr |
| Nov 16, 9:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Grant, LaSalle, Rapides | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 56 min |
| Nov 16, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Rapides | 58 min |
| Nov 16, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 58 min |
| Nov 16, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 2 hr |
| Nov 16, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 2 hr |
| Nov 16, 12:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Grant, LaSalle, Rapides | 4 hr |
| Nov 16, 12:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 43 min |
| Nov 16, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 60 min |
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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.