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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 7, 1989Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1989, 7:53 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1989, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Vernon 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 2497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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, Jun 7, 6:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:00 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
705 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

AT 7PM RADAR SHOWED ALL OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTQORMS LOCATED WELL TO
THE NORTH OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE.  THE CLOSEST STORM WAS NEAR LUFKIN.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND POSE NO
IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE UPPER TEXAS COAST.
DJ

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:20 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA
715 PM CDT WED JUN 07 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT FOR
RAPIDES...GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 715 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF
RAPIDES PARISH MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR THIS
THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TOWARD ALEXANDRIA AN PINEVILLE
AREAS...EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY
HAIL FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...PERSONS IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD BE ALERT AND
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE NECESSARY ACTION
FOR THEIR PROTECTION.

WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED THEREFORE PERSONS IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
SHOULD LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
WARNINGS OR STATEMENTS.

PEOPLE IN IBERVILLE AND ASCENSION PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO THE LATEST STATEMENTS BY THE NATIONA
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WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BATON ROUGE.

Local storm report, Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

SEVERE STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
745 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989

LEESVILLE CITY POLICE REPORTED TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT 710 PM
4 MILES NORTH OF LEESVILLE. DAMAGE SEVERAL HOMES AND DAMAGE
TO CRIPPLED CHILDERN CAMP. NO INJURES REPORTED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	60 min
Jun 7, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	LaSalle, Rapides	2 hr
Jun 7, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	69 min
Jun 7, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	58 min
Jun 8, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vermilion	40 min
Jun 7, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Angelina, Tyler	50 min
Jun 7, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	60 min
Jun 7, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper	31 min
Jun 7, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	49 min

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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.