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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 10, 1990Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1990, 8:36 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1990, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1990, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Lafayette 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, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1990-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 110138 COR
TORLCH
LAC055-110245-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED CORRECTED FOR TIME
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
836 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA

   ...LAFAYETTE PARISH

AT 830 PM...PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER SOUTHWEST LAFAYETTE.
RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST AND SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE
MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED BUILDING.  GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE
PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWESrT FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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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.