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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 21, 1990Sabine County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 21, 1990, 3:46 PM CST for Sabine County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 21, 1990, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Dec 21, 1990, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Sabine 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.6
Supercell composite: 10.6

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The text

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

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, Dec 21, 10:42 AM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before

LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-211635-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1025 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

AT 1025 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF SABINE PASS AND 5
MILES SOUTH OF VINTON. THE HEAVY RAINS IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDUCE
VISIBILITIES THUS MOTORIST SHOULD TAKE EXTRA CAUTION.

ELSEWHERE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER
A PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTH EAST TEXAS. THIS AREA OF
PRECIPITATION WAS FROM BLACK LAKE TO LAFAYETTE TO CAMERON TO JASPER TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Dec 21, 11:41 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-211735-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1135 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM TODAY FOR NORTHERN AND
WESTERN LOUISIANA...

AT 1125 AM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
EXTENDED FROM JOHNSONS BAYOU NORTHWARD TO NEAR VINTON AND FROM 15 MILES
EAST OF DE QUINCEY TO NEAR JENNINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING
STRONG GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. PERSONS
NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE CAUTION.

ELSEWHERE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS
CONTINUED OVER A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND ADJACENT
SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS FROM JONESBORO
TO BATON ROUGE TO HOUSTON.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Dec 21, 12:03 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

TXZ033-046-048-212300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1203 PM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

...WINTER ARRIVES IN SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT...

A FRIGID COLD FRONT IS STEADILY MOVING SOUTHWARD TOWARD SOUTH TEXAS
THIS AFTERNOON. AT 1200 PM CDT...THE FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM SAN
ANTONIO TO COLLEGE STATION TO LONGVEIW. THE FRONT IS FORECASTED TO
REACH THE EAST TEXAS LAKE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THE GOLDEN
TRIANGLE LATE TONIGHT DROPPING TEMPERATURES INTO THE 30S.
THE THREAT OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA
THROUGH TUESDAY.

THE EXTENDED COLD PERIOD WILL BE A THREAT TO PLANTS AND PETS. PLANTS
SHOULD BE BROUGHT INSIDE IF POSSIBLE OR PROVIDED WITH SOME EXTRA
PROTECTION IF NOT POSSIBLE. PETS SHOULD ALSO BE PROVIDED WITH
ADDITIONAL SHELTER AND FOOD. PIPES MAY ALSO NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM
THE COLD TEMPERATURES.

PERSONS PLANNING ON TRAVELING DURING THE HOLIDAYS SHOULD OBTAIN
WEATHER REPORTS BEFORE LEAVING. A COMBINATION OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET
AND SNOW WAS OCCURING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AND IS EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH
OF WEST AND CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT...POSSIBLIY BECOMING A HAZARD TO
HOLIDAY TRAVELERS.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Dec 21, 1:43 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

TXZ033-046-212145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
143 PM CST FRI DEC 21 1990

...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 145 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF KOUNTZE...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODVILLE...NEAR LUFKIN
AND NACOGDOCHES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGTHNING.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR LUFKIN AND NACODGOCHES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Dec 21, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 21, 12:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	67 min
Dec 21, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	31 min
Dec 21, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	41 min
Dec 21, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	60 min
Dec 21, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides	53 min
Dec 21, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	34 min
Dec 21, 5:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	63 min
Dec 20, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Angelina	57 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.