Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 1989, 2:30 PM CST for Angelina County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1989, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1989, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Angelina 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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, Feb 20, 10:49 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1045 AM CST MON FEG 19 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING... AT 1030 AM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN INDICATED... WERE NEAR ORANGE AND ACROSS BEAUREGARD PARISH FROM NORTH OF SULPHUR TO DERIDDER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT LIGHTING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE GULF FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON TO THE SABINE PASS. OTHER PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE OCCURRING FROM NORTHEAST OF KOUNTZE TO EAST OF JASPER. LIGHT RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO EAST OF SHREVEPORT AND FROM NEAR NATCHITOCHES TO WEST OF ALEXANDRIA.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 1:40 PM CST, 50 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 140 PM CST MON FEG 19 1989 ...A TORNADO WARNING FOR RAPIDES PARISH UNTIL 145 PM... ...A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR LASALLE PARISH UNTIL 215 PM... ...A TORNADO WATCH FROM 130 PM UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN LOUISIANA... AT 130 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAINS INDICATED...WERE OCCURRING SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA AS WELL AS IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BEAUREGARD PARISH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT LIGHTING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS ACROSS RAPIDES AND LASALLE PARISHES. SEEK SAFE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE DERIDDER AREA AT 1245 PM.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 1:54 PM CST, 36 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 150 PM CST MON FEG 19 1989 ...A TORNADO WARNING FOR RAPIDES PARISH UNTIL 145 PM... ...A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR LASALLE PARISH UNTIL 215 PM... ...A TORNADO WATCH FROM 130 PM UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 130 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAINS INDICATED...WERE OCCURRING SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA AS WELL AS IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BEAUREGARD PARISH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT LIGHTING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS ACROSS RAPIDES AND LASALLE PARISHES. SEEK SAFE COVE$R IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE DERIDDER AREA AT 1245 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 60 min |
| Feb 20, 1:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | LaSalle | 69 min |
| Feb 20, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 58 min |
| Feb 20, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
| Feb 20, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.