Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1989, 3:28 AM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1989, 3:28 AM CST (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1989, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 47 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, 9.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLCH 290928
TORLCH
LAC115-291015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
328 AM CST WED MAR 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISH
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF LOUISIANA
VERNON
AT 322 AM THE VERNON PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO HAD
TOUCHED DOWN IN THE COMMUNITY OF ANACOCO IN NORTHERN VERNON PARISH.
LAKE CHARLES RADAR SHOWN A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...
TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.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, Mar 29, 2:41 AM CST, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 AM CST WED MAR 29 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 8AM CST... AT 2225 AM CST...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM RAYBURN LAKE TO KOUNTZE TO JUST WEST OF BEAUMONT TO THE COAST IN THE GALVESTON AREA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE TEXAS/LOUISIANA BORDER FROM SABINE PASS TO TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. A LARGE ALMOST SOLID MASS OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTENDED INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA FROM CAMERON TO MANY AND MANSFIELD. LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO THE COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO SABINE PASS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL SPREAD OVER MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 2:45 AM CST, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 AM CST WED MAR 29 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 8AM CST... AT 225 AM CST...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM RAYBURN LAKE TO KOUNTZE TO JUST WEST OF BEAUMONT TO THE COAST IN THE GALVESTON AREA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE TEXAS/LOUISIANA BORDER FROM SABINE PASS TO TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. A LARGE ALMOST SOLID MASS OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTENDED INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA FROM CAMERON TO MANY AND MANSFIELD. LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO THE COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO SABINE PASS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL SPREAD OVER MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 3:17 AM CST, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 310 AM CST WED MAR 29 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 8AM CST... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY THAT INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 305 AM CST...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR MANY TO THE LEESVILLE AND DERIDDER AREAS TO BETWEEN LAKE CHARLES AND ORANGE TEXAS INTO THE COASTAL WATERS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL OVER VERNON...BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND CAMERON PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
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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.