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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Lake Charles, LA

September 9, 1990Grant Parish, LaSalle Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT for Grant Parish, LaSalle Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 9, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Rapides 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant, LaSalle, Rapides55 min
Sep 9, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon60 min
Sep 9, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHTyler64 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.