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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1989, 1:10 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1989, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1989, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Lafayette 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 291811
TORLCH
LAC001-055-291900-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
110 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES...
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
...ACADIA...LAFAYETTE
AT 100 PM CDT THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN CROWLEY REPORTED A FUNNEL
CLOUD SIGHTING 8 MILES SOUTH OF CROWLEY NEAR THE JUNCTION OF LA 13 AND
LA 1115.
THE FUNNEL WAS SIGHTED BY ACADIAN ABULANCE SERVICE PERSONNEL AND
APPEARED TO BE DIPPING DOWN AND WITHDRAWING BACK INTO THE PARENT
CLOUD.
RADAR SHOWED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF
LEESVILLE TO THE OAKDALE AREA TO NEAR CROWLEY TO THE COAST JUST EAST
OF WHITE LAKE.
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED BUILDING. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE
PREFERABLY 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, 9:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 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, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 64 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.