Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 7:02 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 040002 SVRBPT TXC241-351-040100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 702 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE EXTREME NORTHERN PARTS OF JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 40 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1AM MONDAY MORNING. 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. 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, Jun 3, 2:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-032040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR GRANT...LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 225 PM...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...HAD DEVELOPED FROM JUST NORTH OF JENA TO 20 MILES NORTH OF NATCHITOCHES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THROUGH TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVES SOUTH OVER THE NORTH PART OF THE STATE. THIS SYSTEM COMBINE WITH THE SATURATED GROUND ACROSS THE NAMED PARISHES WILL CREATE A DANGEROUS HEAVY PRECIPITATION SITUATION THROUGH TONIGHT. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS...STAY AWAY FROM LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF FLOODING OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-032135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 335 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR GRANT...LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 325 PM...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS SHOWN FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...TO THE JENA AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE OVER THE SOUTH PARTS OF GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES...AND THE NORTHEAST PART OF RAPIDES PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS....DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...THE GROUND ACROSS THE ABOVE PARISHES REMAINS SATURATED AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS CAN BE ANTICIPATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS...STAY AWAY FROM LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF FLOODING OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-032240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 440 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR GRANT...LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 425 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED FROM BETWEEN MANY AND MANSFIELD INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA ACROSS GRANT...LA SALLE ...AND RAPIDES PARISHES TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EAST OF ALEXANDRIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTO6RM ACTIVITY.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-032340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 535 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR GRANT...LA SALLE AND RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 525 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN IN NORTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN SAN AUGUSTINE AND LONGVIEW AND ALONG THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED IN LOUISIANA FROM TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO THE MANY AND WINNFIELD AREAS TO BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND MONROE TO BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 M}PH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ033-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 548 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY TEXAS UNTIL 630PM CDT. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF RUSK AND MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. THIS MOVEMENT COULD PUT THE STORM ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF NACOGDOCHES AND ANGELINA COUNTIES AROUND 615PM CDT. AT A MINIMUM, GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SAN AUGUSTINE AND SABINE COUNTIES ALONG WITH PART OF LAKE TOLEDO BEND. BOATERS ON EAST TEXAS LAKES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SITED. DJK NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:36 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-040045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 636 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF EAST TEXAS UNTIL 1AM CDT THIS MORNING AT 630PM TWO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA. ONE IN WESTERN THE NACOGDOCHES COUNTY NEAR DOUGLAS HAD A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER BUT HAS DIMINISHED SOME IN THE PAST 20 MINUTES. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HEMPHILL IN SABINE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ANGELINA, NACOGDOCHES, TRINITY, CHEROKEE, SABINE, HOUSTON, SAN ANGUSTINE, JASPER, JEFFERSON, HARDIN, NEWTON, ORANGE, TYLER. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Orange | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 27 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.