Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1990, 4:02 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1990, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 1021 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 102103 SVRLCH LAC019-102200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 402 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CALCASIEU PARISH AT 4PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE REGIONAL AIRPORT. WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 37 MPH AT THE AIRPORT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR /YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 10, 3:42 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-102140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 340 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 1990 AT 325 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING FROM NEAR WHITE LAKE AND ABBEVILLE TO THE TEXAS LOUISIANA BORDER NEAR ORANGE TEXAS TO JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY TEXAS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO BETWEEN JENA AND WINNFIELD TO JUST WEST OF WINNFIELD AND THE SOUTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LA SALLE AND GRANT PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THOSE OVER CALCASIEU...CAMERON...AND VERMILION PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW AREAS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE COASTAL SECTIONS SOUTH OF NEW IBERIA AND MORGAN CITY AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THE GULF IN THE COASTAL WATERS AND TO BEYOND 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM GALVESTON TO VERMILION BAY.
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.