Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1989, 7:30 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1989, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1989, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1013 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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 flash flood 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, Feb 20, 4:01 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 400 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR TYLER...JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED AND ARE NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 355...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY NORTH OF NEWTON NEAR BURKEVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NORTH OF JASPER TO NEAR BUNA. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS COVERED NORTHERN JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES...TYLER AND HARDIN COUNTIES...GENERALLY FROM SOUR LAKE TO COLMESNEIL EASTWARD. THIS AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HROUR. CONDITIONS REMAIN FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS INTO THIS EVENING UNTIL A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATER TONIGHT. DCG
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 4:33 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 428 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS APPROACHING GRANT PARISH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...VERNON AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES WEST LOUISIANA... AT 425 PM..A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF WINNFIELD LOUISIANA TO NEAR LEESVILLE TO KIRBYVILLE AND KOUNTZE TEXAS. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED FROM ALEXANDRIA TO JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI WHILE SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN FR0OM FORT POLK AND OAKDALE TO LAKE CHARLES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 5:35 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 528 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS APPROACHING RAPIDES PARISH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AND THE ALEXANDRIA AREA... AT 525 PM..A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST NORTHWEST AND WEST OF ALEXANDRIA ACROSS FORT POLK AND KIRBYVILLE TEXAS TO NORTHWEST AND WEST OF KOUNTZE TEXAS. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HEAVY RAINS AND VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL AGAIN OCCUR IN RAPIDES AND LASALLE PARISHES AND THE ALEXANDRIA AREA. SHOWERS DEVELOPED JUST SOUTH OF BEAUMONT TO SABINE PASS AND JUST WEST OF VERMILION BAY.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 6:09 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 609 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT... AT 555 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS NEW...JASPER AND HARDIN COUNTIES. THE BAND EXTENDED FROM KOUNTZE THROUGH KIRBYVILLE TO BON WEIR AND ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER INTO WEST CENTRAL LOUSIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS BAND WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THE EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUSIANA FROM HOUSTON TO ALEXANDRIA LOUSIANA. THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST VERY SLOWLY. THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE BAND HAVE TRAINED ACROSS THE SAME NARROW AREA FROM NEAR VOTAW THROUGH FRED...KIRBYVILLE AND BON WEIR. SMALL STREAMS...DITCHES AND LOW AREAS OF HIGHWAYS MAY HAVE DEEP WATER IN THEM SO MOTORIST IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO POINT TO ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER INCIDENTS THIS EVENING. LISTEN TO PORT ARTHURS WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS. DCG
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 6:10 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 609 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT... AT 555 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS NEWTON...JASPER AND HARDIN COUNTIES. THE BAND EXTENDED FROM KOUNTZE THROUGH KIRBYVILLE TO BON WEIR AND ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER INTO WEST CENTRAL LOUSIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS BAND WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THE EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUSIANA FROM HOUSTON TO ALEXANDRIA LOUSIANA. THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST VERY SLOWLY. THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE BAND HAVE TRAINED ACROSS THE SAME NARROW AREA FROM NEAR VOTAW THROUGH FRED...KIRBYVILLE AND BON WEIR. SMALL STREAMS...DITCHES AND LOW AREAS OF HIGHWAYS MAY HAVE DEEP WATER IN THEM SO MOTORIST IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION. CON DITIONS CONTINUE TO POINT TO ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER INCIDENTS THIS EVENING. LISTEN TO PORT ARTHURS WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS. DCG
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 6:37 PM CST, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 628 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING IN RAPIDES PARISH AND THE ALEXANDRIA AREA...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS MOVING THROUGH VERNON AND WEST BEAUREGARD PARISHES OF WEST LOUISIANA... AT 625 PM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST WEST OF NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI ACROSS ALEXANDRIA...FORT POLK...LEESVILLE...KIRBYVILLE TEXAS SOUTHWEST TO BEAUMONT. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS VERNON AND RAPIDES PARISH. STREET FLOODING...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND HIGHWAYS...AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING LIKELY. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT PAST HOUR.
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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.