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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 16, 1989Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1989, 2:55 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1989, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1989, 3:55 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 2:58 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Rapides, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, May 16, 11:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1140 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR CENTRAL
AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

AT 1126 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE
MANY AREA IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.

OTHERWISE A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY NORTH
OF A LINE FROM KOUNTZE TEXAS...TO DE QUINCY...TO LEESVILLE...TO JENA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

Special weather statement, May 16, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1233 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR CENTRAL
AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR VERNON PARISH...

AT 1225 PM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST
NORTH OF MANY...AND OVER TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR SOUTHWEST OF MANY.

OTHERWISE A LARGE AREA OF R;AIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY NORTH
OF A LINE FROM RAYBURN LAKE TEXAS TO ALEXANDRIA...AND WEST OF A LINE
FROM DE QUICNY TO RAYBURN LAKE TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

Special weather statement, May 16, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 2:30 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 2:48 PM CDT, 7 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
May 16, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant, Rapides	60 min
May 16, 9:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Nacogdoches	46 min
May 16, 9:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Sabine, San Augustine	45 min
May 16, 12:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Nacogdoches	2 hr
May 16, 12:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	San Augustine	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1989 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.