Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1990, 4:21 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1990, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1990, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beauregard 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 291024 SVRLCH LAC011-291130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 421 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...EASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN BY RADAR JUST EAST OF LONGVILLE LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCAL STREET FLOODING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STATE POLICE TROOP D REPORTED A TREE ACROSS THE ROAD ON LA 110 ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF LONGVILLE AT 410 AM. THERE IS ALSO WATER ACROSS HIGHWAY 171 IN THE SAME AREA. 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, Mar 28, 10:58 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-280540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1045 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 1025 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING FROM THE LEESVILLE...FORT POLK AND DE RIDDER AREAS INTO EAST TEXAS TO NEAR WOODVILLE AND LAKE LIVINGSTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF JASPER TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS MAY BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS VERNON PARISH AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISH DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. RAIN CONTINUED FROM THE ALEXANDRIA...BATON ROUGE AND LAFAYETTE AREAS TO BETWEEN MANSFIELD AND LAKE CHARLES INTO EAST TEXAS TO NEAR LUFKIN AND LAKE LIVINGSTON. SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUED ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TEXAS TO MORGAN CITY.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 11:41 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-280640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1145 PM CST WED MAR 28 1990 AT 1125 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED IN EAST TEXAS FROM NEAR JASPER TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODVILLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES EAST OF JASPER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS VERNON PARISH AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISH DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADS CAN BE EXPECTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF RAIN WHICH CONTINUED GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JENA TO WINNFIELD TO LUFKIN TEXAS TO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 12:37 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ046-290745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1245 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 ...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE IN JAPSER AND NEWTON COUNTIES... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130AM CST FOR NORTHERN JASPER AND NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JASPER AND NEWTON. AT 1245AM CST THE HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR FRED IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN TYLER COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF KIRBYVILLE ACROSS NEWTON AND INTO LOUISIANA. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL END IN JASPER AROUND 1AM AND WILL SOON START IN KIRBYVILLE. CONSIDERABLE FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN THE CITY OF JASPER WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTING pWATER THREE FOOT DEEP ON SOME STREETS. MOTORISTS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE FLOODING AND AVOID DRIVING INTO ANY FAST MOVING WATER. DJK NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 12:44 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-280740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1240 AM CST THU MAR 28 1990 AT 1225 AM...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE AND IN TEXAS JUST SOUTH OF OF JASPER. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE ANTICIPATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS CAN BE EXPECTED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...THAT WAS SHOWN NORTH OF A LAFAYETTE...KINDER...LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS LINE TO THE JENA...WINNFIELD...AND LUKI8N TEXAS AREAS. ISOLATED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN AND A FEW SHOWERS WERE DETECTED FROM NEAR CROWLEY AND ABBEVILLE...TO JUST EAST OF WHITE LAKE. A NARROW BAND OF LIGHT RAIN WAS ALSO NOTED IN THE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 1:50 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-280848- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 148 AM CST THU MAR 28 1990 AT 128 AM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAD DEVELOPED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...TO JUST SOUTH OF LEESVILLE...INTO TEXAS TO NEAR KOUNTZE. THE STRONGEST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE SABINE RIVER NEAR KIRBYVILLE TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN VERNON AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. FLOODING OF LOWING LYING PLACES AND ROADS CAN BE ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE NAMED PARISHES. MORTORIST ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THIS MORNING DUE TO STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. OTHERWISE...A LARGE ARE OF RAIN MIXED WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS SHOWN FROM NEAR NEW IBERIA...DE RIDDER...AND KOUNTZE TEXAS...TO THE NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...WINNFIELD...MANY LOUISIANA ...AND JASPER TEXAS AREAS. ISOLATED PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW SHOWERS WERE DETECTED FROM NEAR JENNINGS...TO VERMILION BAY...AND IN THE GULF 40 TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN TEXAS FROM THE LAKE LIVINGSTON AREA...TO JUST NORTH OF LUFKIN.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 1:57 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
LAZ007-008-011-012-290848- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 148 AM CST THU MAR 28 1990 AT 128 AM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAD DEVELOPED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...TO JUST SOUTH OF LEESVILLE...INTO TEXAS TO NEAR KOUNTZE. THE STRONGEST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE SABINE RIVER NEAR KIRBYVILLE TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN VERNON AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. FLOODING OF LOWING LYING PLACES AND ROADS CAN BE ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE NAMED PARISHES. MORTORIST ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THIS MORNING DUE TO STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. OTHERWISE...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS SHOWN FROM NEAR NEW IBERIA...DE RIDDER LOUISIANA... AND KOUNTZE TEXAS...TO THE NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...WINNFIELD...MANY LOUISIANA...JASPER TEXAS AREAS. ISOLATED PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW SHOWERS WERE DETECTED FROM NEAR JENNINGS...TO V+ERMILION BAY...AND IN THE GULF 40 TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN TEXAS FROM THE LAKE LIVINGSTON AREA...TO JUST NORTH OF LUFKIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 64 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.