Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1990, 8:47 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1990, 8:47 PM CST (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1990, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 58 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, 2.8 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
- 962 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLCH 200250
SVRLCH
LAC115-200345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
847 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISH...
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
...VERNON
A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF
LEESVILLE...OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS SHOWN FROM
JUST NORTHWEST OF WINNFIELD LOUISIANA...TO THE KOUNTZE TEXAS AREA.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jan 19, 5:58 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-200053 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 553 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL...AND MOST SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VEMRILION PARISHES UNTIL 11 PM CST... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST THROUGH TONIGHT... AT 530 PM...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN IN TEXAS...FROM JUST EAST OF SAN AUGUSTINE...TO THE JASPER AREA...TO NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED IN TEXAS FROM THE LIBERTY AND BEAUMONT AREAS... TO TO WELL NORTH OF LUFKIN AND MANS FIELD LOUISIANA. ISOLATED PATCHES OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND NATCHITOCHES...TO NEAR EUNICE AND ALEXANDRIA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED ALONG THE TEXAS COAST FROM GALVESTON...TO SABINE PASS. ADDITIONAL RAIN FROM THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS VERNON PARISH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STARTED TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA DURING THE PAST HOUR. THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT HOUR...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 6:00 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-200053 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 553 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL...AND MOST OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION PARISHES UNTIL 11 PM CST... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA THROUGH TONIGHT... AT 530 PM...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN IN TEXAS...FROM JUST EAST OF SAN AUGUSTINE...TO THE JASPER AREA...TO NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED IN TEXAS FROM THE LIBERTY AND BEAUMONT AREAS... TO TO WELL NORTH OF LUFKIN AND MANSFIELD LOUISIANA. ISOLATED PATCHES OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND NATCHITOCHES...TO NEAR EUNICE AND ALEXANDRIA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DETECTED ALONG THE TEXAS COAST FROM GALVESTON...TO SABINE PASS. ADDITIONAL RAIN FROM THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS VERNON PARISH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STARTED TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA DURING THE PAST HOUR. THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT HOUR...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 6:47 PM CST, 2 hours before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-200150 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 640 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION PARISHES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FOR TONIGHT... AT 630 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM THE SOUTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF RAYBURN LAKE IN EAST TEXAS TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF WOODVILLE TEXAS. RAIN MIXED WITH THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM A LUFKIN TEXAS...MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...WINNFIELD LOUISIANA...ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA LINE SOUTH TO NEAR EUNICE...KINDER...AND DEQUINCY IN LOUISIANA AND TO NEAR BEAUMONT... LIBERTY...AND LAKE LIVINGSTON IN TEXAS. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE COASTAL SECTIONS AND IN THE COASTAL WATERTS FROM HIGH ISLAND TEXAS TO CAMERON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS VERNON PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:23 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
TXZ048-046-033-200300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 725 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...TORNADO WATCHES CONTINUE FOR PARTS OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 5 EXPIRES AT 11 PM CST TONIGHT. IT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXAS COUNTIES....HARDIN, NEWTON, JASPER, ORANGE, TYLER, JEFFERSON AND SABINE. THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 4 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM FOR ANGELINA NACOGDOCHES AND SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTIES. THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CHEROKEE, HOUSTON AND TRINITY COUNTIES TEXAS. THE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.. THERE WERE TWO REPORTED TORNADOES ONE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF LUFKIN AROUND 345PM AND THE OTHER A WATERSPOUT ON LAKE SAM RAYBURN AROUND 6PM CST. AT 720PM CST THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE ON A LINE FROM WOODVILLE TO HEMPHILL MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BETWEEN HOUSTON AND PORT ARTHUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:43 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-200240 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 740 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION PARISHES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FOR TONIGHT... AT 725 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED FROM JUST NORTH OF MANY INTO EAST TEXAS TO NEAR JASPER... WOODVILLE...AND THE NORTH END OF GALVESTON BAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANY AND 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MIXED IN WITH A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM A LUFKIN TEXAS...MANSFIELD...WINNFIELD...ALEXANDRIA LINE SOUTH TO NEAR GALVESTON...PORT ARTHUR TEXAS...DEQUINCY...KINDER...AND OPELOUSAS. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN NEAR LAKE CHARLES... MIDWAY BETWEEN LAFAYETTE AND BATON ROUGE...AND IN THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND CAMERON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF GRANT AND RAPIDES PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 8:46 PM CST, 1 minute before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-200340 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 840 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON AND VERMILION PARISHES... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FOR TONIGHT... AT 825 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM JUST WEST OF NATCHITOCHES ACROSS THE SOUTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NEAR JASPER TEXAS AND KOUNTZE TEXAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF VERNON PARISH BY 900 PM CST. VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO VERNON PARISH. RADAR ALSO SHOWED LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF EAST TEXAS AND OVER MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING FROM A HOUSTON/LUFKIN TEXAS LINE EAST INTO LOUISIANA TO NEAR WINNFIELD...ALEXANDRIA...AND EUNICE. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN GALVESTON AND CAMERON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.