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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 26, 1988Grant Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1988, 7:10 AM CDT for Grant Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 1988, 7:10 AM CDT (12:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 1988, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Grant Parish, LA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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 26, 5:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 6:34 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
633 AM CDT WED OCT 26 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS GRANT PARISH AND INTO LASALLE.

AT 625 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM JUST NORTH OF MANY LOUISIANA
THROUGH THE NATCHITOCHES AREA TO NORTHEASTERN GRANT PARISH. THESE
WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM OVER NORTHEAST GRANT PARISH
WILL MOVE INTO LASALLE PARISH WHILE THE ONES NEAR NATCHITOCHES WILL
ENTER THE WEST PART OF GRANT PARISH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL FROM THE PRESENT TIME TO 730 AM.

THESE CONTINUED TO BE PART OF A LARGE MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF NACOGDOCHES TEXAS TO MANY AND
ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA TO NEAR NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM JUST
OFF THE COAST NEAR HIGH ISLAND TEXAS TO 125 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON
LOUISIANA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 11:38 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu52 min
Oct 26, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Jefferson Davis63 min
Oct 26, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron63 min
Oct 26, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLafayette, Vermilion58 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.