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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 2, 1988Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1988, 1:54 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 2, 1988, 1:54 AM CDT (06:54 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 1988, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.7

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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, Oct 2, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	66 min
Oct 2, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	64 min
Oct 2, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	64 min
Oct 1, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	42 min
Oct 1, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Nacogdoches	56 min
Oct 2, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Sabine	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.