Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 1990, 10:52 PM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1990, 10:52 PM CST (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1990, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 KBPT 290444 FFWBPT TXC241-290600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1052 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERIVCE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE CITY OF JASPER IN JASPER COUNTY TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE CITY CAUSING WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO AND THE FLOODING WILL GET WORST. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 28, 5:26 PM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ033-290030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 526 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 ....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... AT 530PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED BETWEEN LAKE SAM RAYBURN AND LAKE LIVINGSTON TO NEAR COLLEGE STATION. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS HOWEVER THEY ARE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE CAREFUL AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 8:49 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ033-290345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 855 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 855PM CST A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS EAST TEXAS FROM NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON TO WOODVILLE TO JUST WEST OF NEWTON TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WHILE THE ENTIRE BAND WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE IN TYLER COUNTY TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PERSISTED ACROSS THIS GENERAL AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS AND MOST LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED CONSIDERABLE RAIN, POSSIBLY AS HIGH AS THREE INCHES IN SPOTS. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED, HOWEVER MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION TONIGHT. THERE HAS BEEN A GRADUAL DECREASE IN THE STORMS AND THE RAINS HAVE ENDED WEST OF COLLEGE STATION. DJK NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 10:51 PM CST, 1 minute before
LAZ007-008-011-012-280540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1045 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 1025 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING FROM THE LEESVILLE...FORT POLK AND DE RIDDER AREAS INTO EAST TEXAS TO THE NEAR WOODVILLE AND LAKE LIVINGSTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF JASPER TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS MAY BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS VERNON PARISH AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISH DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. RAIN CONTINUED FROM THE ALEXANDRIA...BATON ROUGE AND LAFAYETTE AREAS TO BETWEEN MANSFIELD AND LAKE CHARLES INTO EAST TEXAS TO NEAR LUFKIN AND LAKE LIVINGSTON. SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUED ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TEXAS TO MORGAN CITY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 11:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 110 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.