Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 1989, 5:10 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1989, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1989, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 30 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, 3 hours 16 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.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 2:41 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 233 PM CST MON FEG 19 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 800 PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 225 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAINS INDICATED...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF WEST LOUISIANA SPREADING ACROSS ALLEN PARISH INTO RAPIDES AND LASALLE PARISHES. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING IN THE NORTHERN PART OF ALLEN AND EVANGELINE PARISH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE ARE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A MASS OF RAIN THAT WAS OCCURRING FROM THE NORTHEAST PART OF CALCASIEU PARISH TO NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. DURING THE PAST HOUR A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN INDICATED WAS OCCURRING FROM LAKE LIVINGSTON...ACROSS SAM RAYBURN LAKE INTO NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHiWEST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 3:36 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Feb 20, 4:01 PM CST, 1 hour 9 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, 37 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.
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, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Angelina | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:10 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.