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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 29, 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
- May 29, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 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
- 1035 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 291822 TORBPT TXC199-291900- BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 118 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICERM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF SOUR LAKE IN HARDIN COUNTY. THIS IS PART OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER IN THE HOUSTON, GALVESTON AREAS EARLIER TODAY. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN HARD+IN COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY, ESPECIALLY IN SOUR LAKE AND SILSBEE AND KOUNTZE. DCG
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, May 29, 11:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1140 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 1125 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH NEAR JENNINGS. THE JEFF DAVIS SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST WEST OF JENNINGS. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHOULD BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IF FUNNEL CLOUDS OR OTHER THRATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM DE RIDDER TO NEAR NATCHITOCHS...JUST EAST OF LAKE CHARLES AND FROM VERMILION BAY TO JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. . SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEASaT TEXAS FROM HOUSTON TO LUFKIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 29, 11:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1150 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 ...PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE... A SQUALL LINE HAS BEEN MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD OUT OF CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE MORNING AND WAS MOVING THROUGH THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA. SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE HOUSTON AREA WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS SQUALL LINE. SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED OVER GALVESTON ISLAND. THIS SQUALL LINE WILL ENTER THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AROUND 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL PRODUCE SMALL FUNNEL CLOUDS, SMALL HAIL, STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTENING. STAY TUNED TO PORT ARTHURS WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER DEVELOPEMENTS ON THE APPROACHING DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. DCG
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:28 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1225 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 1225 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A LARGE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH AND WEST OF KINDER LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH AND THROUGH ALLEN PARISH. THE CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE PRESENT TIME UNTIL 130 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON TO LUFKIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:29 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1225 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 1225 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A LARGE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH AND WEST OF KINDER LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH AND THROUGH ALLEN PARISH. THE CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE PRESENT TIME UNTIL 130 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:33 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1225 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 1225 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A LARGE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH AND WEST OF KINDER LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH AND THROUGH ALLEN PARISH. THE CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE PRESENT TIME UNTIL 130 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:55 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1245 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 1225 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING JUST WEST OF KINDER LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUND TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYNING AREAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CAN BE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH AND THROUGH ALLEN PARISH. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHERN LOUISIANA FROM ALEXANDRIA TO VERMILION BAY...NEAR WHITE LAKE...OVER THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF CAMERON...AND ALONG THE SABINE RIVER FROM THE COAST TO ORANGE. . SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM HOUSTON TO LUFKIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR.
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.