Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 1990, 5:02 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Acadia 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLCH 032303
SVRLCH
LAC001-032345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
502 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISH...
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
...ACADIA
AT 455 PM CST THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF ACADIA PARISH 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CROWLEY.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF CROWLEY BY 510 PM CST.
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, Feb 3, 12:34 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
LAZ006-007-008-011-012-031940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1235 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR VERNON..GRANT.. LA SALLE..CATAHOULA..CONCORDIA..RAPIDES..AND AVOYELLES PARISHES... AT 1225 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS OVER A LARGE PART OF LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN BORDER OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MONROE TO SHREVEPORT AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST IN LOUISIANA. IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...THE AREA WAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM JASPER TO GALVESTON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OFFSHORE UP TO 70 MILES NFROM GALVESTON TO 40 MILES EAST OF CAMERON. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OFFSHORE 25 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON AND 30 MILES EAST OF GALVESTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 1:35 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
LAZ006-007-008-011-012-032040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 135 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR VERNON..GRANT.. LA SALLE..CATAHOULA..CONCORDIA..RAPIDES..AND AVOYELLES PARISHES... AT 125 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS OVER A LARGE PART OF LOUISIANA AND THE EASTERN BORDER OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MONROE TO LEESVILLE AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST AND EAST TO BATON ROUGE. IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS.. IT WAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LUFKIN TO GALVESTON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OFFSHORE UP TO 100 MILES FROM GALVESTON TO VERMILLION BAY.. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS NEAR FORT POLK...OVER WHITE LAKE AND JUST WEST AND SOUTH OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 2:36 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
LAZ006-007-008-011-012-032140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 235 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR VERNON..GRANT.. LA SALLE..CATAHOULA..CONCORDIA..RAPIDES..AND AVOYELLES PARISHES... AT 225 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY FROM WINFIELD SOUTH TO THE COAST AND EAST TO BATON ROUGE. IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS..IT WAS GENERALLY EAST OF GALVESTON TO JASPER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OFFSHORE UP TO 80 MILES FROM GALVESTON TO VERMILLION BAY.. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS FROM LAFAYETTE SOUTH TO PECAN ISLAND ..15 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDRIA AND 30 MILES NORTH OF BEAUMONT TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
LAZ006-007-008-011-012-032240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 330 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR VERNON..GRANT.. LA SALLE..CATAHOULA..CONCORDIA..RAPIDES..AND AVOYELLES PARISHES... AT 325 PM AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY FROM WINNFIELD TO MONROE AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST AND EAST TO BATON ROUGE. IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS..IT WAS GENERALLY EAST OF JASPER TO PORT ARTHUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OFFSHORE UP TO 100 MILES FROM GALVESTON TO VER?MILLION BAY.. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE AND 20 MILES OFFSHORE FROM SABINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
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.