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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 2, 1989Nacogdoches County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1989, 5:01 PM CDT for Nacogdoches County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1989, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Nacogdoches 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBPT 022203
FFWBPT
TXC347-030000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
501 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
          ...EASTERN NACOGDOCHES
 
AT 500 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINS ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES. THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IS STATIONARY.
 
VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING IN THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF
NACOGDOCHES COUNTY.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T~ DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
NNNN

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, Jun 2, 12:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1230 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE
TO MOVE THROUGHOUT LAKE CHARLES AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...

DUE TO THE LARGE AMOUNT AND RAINFALL RATES OCCURING WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL OCCUR.

AT 12.25 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF 2
INCH OR MORE ARE PRESENTLY OCCURING OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN LAKE CHARLES
WITH FLOODING OCCURING ON VARIOUS STREETS.  A LARGE CLUSTER OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED FROM OAKDALE EASTWARD TO BATON ROUGE
AND EXTENDING NORTHWARD TO ALEXANDRIA.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST BETWEEN
FREEPORT AND BEAUMONT.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

A LARGE PATCH OF RAIN WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING FROM
NEAR HOUSTON ACROSS TH$E SABINE RIVER AND OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE GULF EAST AND SOUTHEAST
OF GALVESTON AND SOUTH OF VERMILION BAY AND THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
130 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE
TO MOVE THROUGHOUT LAKE CHARLES AND THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...

HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS  CONTINUE TO OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AND AS RESULTS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL OCCUR.

AT 1.25 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF 2
INCH OR MORE ARE PRESENTLY OCCURING OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN HALF OF
LOUISIANA...MAINLY SOUTH OF A TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR ALEXANDRIA LINE AND
EXTENDING EASTWARD BEYOND BATON ROUGE.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE UPPER TEXASm COAST BETWEEN
FREEPORT AND GALVESTON.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHWEST
GULF 50 TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
230 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE
OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...

HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS  CONTINUE TO OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AND AS RESULTS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL OCCUR.

AT 2.25 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF 2
INCH OR MORE ARE PRESENTLY OCCURING OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN HALF OF
LOUISIANA...MAINLY SOUTH OF A TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR MONROE LINE AND
EXTENDING SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE NEW ORLEANS AREA.

HEAVIEST OF THESE STORMS WERE INDICATED IN A LINE BETWEEN DEQUINCY AND
NORTHWEST OF JENA.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST BETWEEN
HOUSTON AND GALVESTON.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHWEST
GULF 50 TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
325 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUED
OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...

HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS CONTINUE TO OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND AS
RESULTS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL OCCUR.

AT 3.25 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF 2
INCH OR MORE ARE SHOWN FROM BEAUMONT NORTHEASTWARD TO SOUTHWEST OF
MONROE...WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND BATON ROUGE.

AN EXTENSIVE AREA OF RAIN WAS INDICATED SOUTH OF A TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR
TO THE COASTAL WATERS OF LOUISIANA.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST BETWEEN
HOUSTON AND WEST OF GALVESTON.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHWEST
GULF 50 TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
450 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUED
OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 430 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING FROM SOUTH
WEST OF ABBEVILLE TO MORGAN CITY.  THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.  BECAUSE OF THE SLOW
MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS
POSSIBLE.  AVOID AREAS OF FLOODING WHILE DRIVING AS THERE IS A POTENTIAL
DANGER.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST TEXAS FROM NORTHWEST OF
LIBERTY TO THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN WERE OVER EAST TEXAS FROM NEAR HIGH ISLAND
TO NORTH OF SAM RAYBURN LAKE AND BEYOND.  A LARGE MASS OF RAIN SPREAD
FROM WEST OF JASPER TO MONROE AND OVER LOUISIANA TO THE COAST EAST OF

CAMERON AND EAST ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVE9R AND BEYOND.

OVER THE GULF PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING FROM GALVESTON TO THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY AND OFFSHORE FOR MORE
THAN 100 MILES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson4 hr

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.