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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 22, 1988Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 22, 1988, 10:07 PM CST for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 22, 1988, 10:07 PM CST (04:07 UTC)
Expired: Dec 22, 1988, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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, Dec 22, 7:31 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
728 PM CST THU DEC 22 1988

A LARGE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN BY THE LAKE
CHARLES WEATHER RADAR 15 TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF VERNON PARISH BY 730 PM.

VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY
THE THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS VERNON PARISH BETWEEN THE
PRESENT TIME AND 830 PM CST THIS THURSDAY EVENING.

Special weather statement, Dec 22, 7:52 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
751 PM CST THU DEC 22 1988

A LARGE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN BY THE LAKE
CHARLES WEATHER RADAR 10 M

Special weather statement, Dec 22, 9:22 PM CST, 45 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
Dec 22, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	55 min
Dec 22, 8:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	32 min
Dec 22, 8:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	26 min
Dec 22, 8:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	48 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.