Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1990, 7:49 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Sabine County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1990, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Sabine County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jasper, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 934 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 280049 SVRBPT TXC403-241-351-457-280115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 749 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...SABINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY...TYLER COUNTY AT 745 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM HEMPHILL...TO BROOKLEND...TO WEST OF JASPER...TO WEST OF WOODVILLE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS WITHIN THIS LINE. A TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER LAKE RAYBURN WEST OF ZAVALA AT 735 PM. DCG 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. 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, Apr 27, 7:44 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-280145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 742 PM CDT FRI APR 27 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 200 AM... AT 725 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN IN TEXAS FROM KOUNTZE TO JUST NORTHWEST OF SAN AUGUSTINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS....DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS DETECTED IN TEXAS FROM THE CONROE AND LAKE LIVINGSTON AREAS....TO NEAR THE NORTHERN END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | San Augustine | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.