Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1987, 2:15 PM CST for Angelina County, Nacogdoches County, San Augustine County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1987, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1987, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Angelina County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, San Augustine 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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, Feb 27, 10:32 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1030 AM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 1025 AM.. PATCHES OF HEAVY SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER PARTS OF LOUISIANA...JUST NORTHEAST OF LAKE CHARLES TO EUNICE AND VILLE PLATTE...JUST EAST OF WINNFIELD...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST TIP OF MISSISSIPPI TO NATCHEZ. ISOLATED SHOWERS DEVELOPED JUST NORTH OF WHITE LAKE LOUISIANA... SOUTH OF SABINE PASS...AND EAST OF HOUSTON. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 11:36 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1135 AM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 1125 AM..A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND A POSSIBLE THUNDERSHOWER WAS SHOWN IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA NORTHWEST AND JUST WEST OF ALEXANDRIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PATCHES OF RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM LAKE CHARLES TO BEAUMONT...NEAR NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND MIDWAY BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND ALEXANDRIA. ISOLATED SHOWERS DEVELOPED FROM NORTH OF HOUSTON TO WEST OF GALVESTON. THE RAIN BETWEEN LAKE CHARLES AND BEAUMONT WAS MOVING NORTH 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 12:34 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1235 PM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 1225 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING AND INTENSIFING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HIGH ISLAND TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT TO SOUTH OF LAKE LIVINGSTON MOVING NORTH IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SHOWN IN WEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM NORTH OF LAKE CHARLES TO NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 12:50 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1250 PM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER LAKE LIVINGSTON AT 1250 PM CST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSIFYING AND MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. IF YOU LIVE IN THE LUFKIN-NAGADOCHES AREA OF ANGELINA AND SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTIES YOU SHOULD EXPECT SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH BETWEEN 100 PM AND 300 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAINS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. << EVERYONE IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON...AS MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 1:43 PM CST, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 145 PM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS. AT 145 PM CST RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF JASPER...NEWTON...TYLER AND ANGELINA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEWTON TO JUST EAST OF WOODVILLE...AND NEAR DIBOLL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT FAST-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS JUST BECAUSE OF THE FAST MOVEMENT ALONE. HOWEVER...THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED TO CONTAIN SOME VERY HEAVY RAINS AND...POSSIBLY...HAIL. EVERYONE IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SINCE MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. EVERYONE IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTER NOON...AS MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 1:48 PM CST, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 145 PM CST FRI FEB 27 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 125 PM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INTENSIFY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM NEAR KIRBYVILLE TO MIDWAY BETWEEN LAKE LIVINGSTON AND LUFKIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES FROM SABINE PASS TOF CAMERON MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. CLUSTERS OF HEAVY SHOWERS WERE SHOWN IN WEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE TO NEAR AND EAST OF ALEXANDRIA.
Nearby
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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.