Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 7:59 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 3:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 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, 3 hours 18 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, 2 hours 24 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, 2 hours 11 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, 1 hour 23 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
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:41 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-040145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 741 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 1AM MONDAY MORNING. AT 740PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM LAKE LIVINGSTON TO LAKE SAM RAYBURN, THEN CURVING SOUTHWARD TO JUST NORTH OF JASPER THEN EASTWARD INTO LOUISIANA. STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS SHOULD BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL NEAR A WOODVILLE/KIRBYVILLE LINE BY 800PM CDT. DJ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 44 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.