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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1989, 9:45 AM CDT for Sabine County, San Augustine County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1989, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1989, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sabine County, TX, San Augustine 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 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, May 16, 7:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
TTAAOO KESF 161255 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA 1255 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 300PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR RAPIDES GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS SOME VERY STRONG WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE PARISHES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...AT 1255PM RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS bHAD MOVED INTO RAPIDES AND GRANT PARISHES MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 46 min |
| May 16, 12:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 2 hr |
| May 16, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | San Augustine | 68 min |
Nearby
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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.