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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1989, 10:26 AM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1989, 10:26 AM CDT (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1989, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Evangeline 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 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLCH 291527
TORLCH
LAC039-291630-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1026 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISH...
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
...WESTERN EVANGELINE
AT 1007 AM VILLE PLATTE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF VIDRINE.
AT 1015 AM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF VILLE
PLATTE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED BUILDING. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE
PRE FERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 29, 5:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 545 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST LOUISIANA ...CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 530 AM...BANDS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WIDESPREAD RAIN WERE LOCATED IN EAST TEXAS FROM JASPER AND KIRBYVILLE SOUTH ACROSS ORANGE AND PORT ARTHUR INTO THE GULF 30 MILES SOUTH TO 60 MILES SOUTH WEST OF SABINE PASS...AND IN LOUISIANA FROM JUST EAST OF THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO SOUTH OF WINNFIELD SOUTH TO EUNICE...OPELOUSAS... CROWLEY ACROSS WHITE LAKE INTO THE GULF...LAFAYETTE TO THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY SOUTH INTO THE GULF 75 MILES...AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE. MASSIVE RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN THE RAIN COVERED EXTREME EAST TEXAS AND MOST OF THE WEST TWO THIRDS OF LOUISIANA INTO THE GULF TO BEYOND 100 MILES SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF GALVESTON AND FREEPORT. MOVEMENT IN NORTH LOUISIANA WAS WEST AT 15 MPH...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE GULF NORTH AT 25 MPH. SCATTERED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES AROUND ALEXANDRIA AND LAFAYETTE BUT RAIN HAS SLACKED UP AROUND LAKE CHARLES. NEVERTHELESS...MANY REPORTS OF FLOODED STREETS IN LAKE CHARLES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ONLY USE EXTREME CAUTION BUT UNNECESSARY DRIVING SHOULD BE PUT OFF FOR ANOTHER FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:34 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 930AM CDT THU JUN 29 1989 ...TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 STILL CLOSED... JUST A REMINDER..TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND HIGH ISLAND REMAINS CLOSED. THE SEGMENT FROM HIGH ISLAND TO THE FERRY IS OPEN. DJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 10:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 50 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.