Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1990, 9:10 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1990, 9:10 AM CST (15:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1990, 10:10 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KESF 151513
SVRESF
LAC079-151610-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA
910 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALEXANDRIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES...
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
... RAPIDES
AT 910 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO RAPIDES PARISH THIS
THUNDERSTORM WILL EFFECT GLENMORA ALSO THE ALEXANDRIA
PINEVILLE AREAS...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM...
PERSONS IN RAPIDES PARISH SHOULT BE ALERT AND IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE NECESSARY ACTION.
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 15, 4:46 AM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-151145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 440 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 425 AM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM 30 MILES WEST OF ALEXANDRIA TO 20 MILES EAST OF DE QUINCY TO THE LAKE CHARLES AND CAMERON AREAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE LINE AS IT MOVES EAST AT 15 MPH. THE LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH VERNON...BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND CAMERON PARISHES AND INTO RAPIDES...ALLEN...AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR WINNFIELD...ALEXANDRIA...AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EAST OF ALEXANDRIA SOUTH ACROSS THE COAST AND INTO THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO VERMILION BAY. LARGE PATCHES O.F RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN TEXAS FROM JUST NORTH OF SAN AUGUSTINE TO THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF GALVESTON.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 5:43 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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}T AND INTO THE GULF TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 8:38 AM CST, 32 minutes before
LAZ079-151530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA 830 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 AT 830 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SOUTH WEST PART OF RAPIDES PARISH NEAR GLENMORA...THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE PARISH...PERSONS IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS NECESSARY.
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.