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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1990, 2:36 PM CDT for Angelina County, Nacogdoches County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1990, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Angelina County, TX, Nacogdoches 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, 7.6 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 031936 FFWBPT TXC005-347-032245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 236 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL TEXAS ...ANGELINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...NACOGDOCHES COUNTY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTIES OF ANGELINA AND NACOGDOCHES IN EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE THE CITY OF LUFKIN...ON THE LOOP....IN THE FREIGHTLINE DISTRICT...AND ON FM 843. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES....ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE CITY. IF FLOOD WATERS ARE NEAR...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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, May 3, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TXZ033-032015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 116 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN ANGELINA COUNTY WEST OF LUFKIN TEXAS... AT 1 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ANGELINA COUNTY WEST OF LUFKIN TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING WILL OCCUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AND AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CENTRAL IN NORTHWEST ANGELINA COUNTY AND THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES TEXAS. PERSONS OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD CURTAIL ALL ACTIVITIES AND MOVED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MA&Y REACH SEVERE POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON. A REMINDER...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FO R THE LAKES AREA. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:16 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
TXZ033-032015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 216 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN ANGELINA COUNTY WEST OF LUFKIN TEXAS... AT 1 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ANGELINA COUNTY WEST OF LUFKIN TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING WILL OCCUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AND AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CENTRAL IN NORTHWEST ANGELINA COUNTY AND THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES TE PERSONS OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD CURTAIL ALL ACTIVITIES AND MOVED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON. A REMINDER...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE LAKES AREA. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 39 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.