Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1990, 3:22 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1990, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1990, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 022026 SVRLCH LAC019-023-022130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 322 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CALCASIEU PARISH...CAMERON PARISH AT 325 PM...LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ORANGE TEXAS TO NEAR JENNINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Apr 2, 9:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-021545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 932 AM CDT MON APR 2 1990 AT 925 AM...A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY ACROSS THE SOUTH HALF OF LOUISIANA FROM NORTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE AND LAFAYETTE TO OAKDALE...LAKE CHARLES...VINTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS FROM VINTON TO OAKDALE ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL THIS MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AROUND LAKE CHARLES... SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. A FEW RAINSHOWERS DEVELOPED IN THE GULF 50 TO 70 MILES SOUTH AND SOUTH WEST OF CAMERON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
TXC351-022045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 140 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 ...HEAVY RAIN IN NEWTON COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... AT 125 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NEWTON COUNTY FROM NEAR JAMESTOWN TO NEWTON TO BON WEIR TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNINGWITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED NEAR NEWTON AND BON WEIR TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN SIZE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS HAD RELOCATED NEAR DEWEYVILLE TEXAS. PERSONS IN NORTHERN NEWTON SHOULD SOME LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 1:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-021945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 138 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 AT 130 PM...A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPED FROM EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI INTO WEST LOUISIANA THIS HOUR AND WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE TO BUNKIE WEST TO KIRBYVILLE TEXAS. A FEW RAINSHOWERS WERE INDICATED JUST S OUTHEAST AND SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA. THE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES ARE MOVING SOUTH THROUGH BEAUREGARD PARISH INTO CALCASIEU PARISH AND COULD AGAIN PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS WITH PASSAGE.
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 1:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
TXC351-022045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 140 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 ...HEAVY RAINS IN NEWTON COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... AT 135 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NEWTON COUNTY FROM NEAR JAMESTOWN TO NEWTON TO BON WEIR TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR NEWTON AND BON WEIR TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN SIZE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS HAD RELOCATED NEAR DEWEYVILLE TEXAS. PERSONS IN NORTHERN NEWTON SHOULD EXPECT SOME LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
TXC351-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 204 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 ...HEAVY RAINS IN NEWTON COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... AT 135 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NEWTON COUNTY FROM NEAR JAMESTOWN TO NEWTON TO BON WEIR TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR NEWTON AND BON WEIR TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN SIZE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS HAD RELOCATED NEAR DEWEYVILLE TEXAS. PERSONS IN NORTH NEWTON COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:41 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-022045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 235 PM CDT MON APR 2 1990 AT 225 PM...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP FROM EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE TO SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA ...JUST SOUTH AND WEST OF OAKDALE WEST ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER TO NEAR BEAUMONT AND HOUSTON. STRONGEST STORMS WERE SHOWN ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES AND OVER ORANGE TEXAS...WEST OF LAKE CHARLES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS...AND NORTH AND WEST PARTS OF CALCASIEU PARISH WILL VPRODUCE VERY GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE SOUTH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 35 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.