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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1987, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
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 tornado 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 minute 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, 0 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.
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, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 60 min |
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.