Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1990, 5:40 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 1990, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1990, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 052240 SVRBPT TXC199-052315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 540 PM CDT WED SEP 5 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN HARDIN COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL BETWEEN SOUR LAKE AND SARATOGA IN HARDIN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM) ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NNNN
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, Sep 5, 3:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
TXZ033-046-052145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 339 PM CDT WED SEP 5 1990 AT 340 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST NEWTON COUNTY... NORTHWEST JASPER COUNTY AND SOUTH NACOGDOCHES COUNTY. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM BON WEIR IN NEWTON COUNTY TO OAK SHADE IN POLK COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST NEAR 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. NNNN
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 4:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TXZ046-048-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 417 PM CDT WED SEP 5 1990 AT 415PM CDT RADAR NOTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN LAKE LIVINGSTON AND DAM B IN EAST TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 20 MPH. ONE STRONG STORM WAS DISIPATING NEAR WOODVILLE. ABOUT 330PM THIS STORPRODUCED WIND DAMAGE..BLOWING THE ROOF OFF AN ICEHOUSE.. IN JASPER NEATHE INTERSECTION OF US 96 AND 190. THE DEBRI CLOSED US 96 BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY EXPECTED THE ROAD TO BE OPEN BY 430PM CDT. AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF TWIN FUNNEL CLOUDS WAS ALSO REPORTED TO THE DPS APPROXIMATELY THIS SAME TIME. A STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST zOF KIRBYVILLE. ELSEWHERE ONE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF MAURICEVILLE NEAR THE JASPER COUNTY LINE. IF CURRENT MOTION CONTINUES THE STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR BEAUMONT BY 5PM CDT. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 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.