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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 27, 1990Cameron Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1990, 2:59 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1990, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1990, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Cameron 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1990-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1100 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1990-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 272000
SVRLCH
LAC023-272030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
259 PM CDT WED JUN 27 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...WESTERN CAMERON PARISH
 
AT 258 PM...THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMERON.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNIN"G ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.