Tornado Warning 33, NWS Lake Charles, LA

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
950 AM CDT SUN OCT 21 1990

...COLD FRONT IN THE LAKES AREA...

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS LAKES
AREA THIS MORNING...BUT THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING IN THE
LAKES REGION.

THE RAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT WHICH PASSED THROUGH LUFKIN
ABOUT 9 AM CDT. TEMPERATURES AHEAD OF THE FRONT ARE ABOUT 70
DEGREES...WHILE TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT ARE DROPPING INTO THE
50S. AT 9 AM CDT THE TEMPERATURE IN TYLER HAD DROPPED TO 52 DEGREES.

AN UNCOMFORTABLE AFTERNOON IS IN STORE WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE
RAIN...TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MvPH.
MONDAY WILL BRING CLEARING SKIES AND COOL TEMPERATURES WITH HIGHS IN
THE 60S.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1130 AM CDT SUN OCT 21 1990

...CHILLY WEATHER FOR THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE...

A COLD FRONT IS PUSHING SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE BEAUMONT/PORT
ARTHUR/ORANGE METROPOLITAN AREA.  THE COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH LUFKIN
ABOUT 9 AM CDT AND ACROSS THE HOUSTAN AREA NEAR 10 AM CDT.

AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE THIS AFTERNOON...THE
WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND BECOME QUITE BLUSTERY.  AT 11 AM
CDT...THE WINDS IN HOUSTON WERE NORTH NEAR 20 MPH GUSTING TO ABOUT 30
MPH.

THERE IS A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS COLD FRONT.
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ARE A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THE FLASKH FLO
WATCH ISSUED EARLY THIS MORNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IS NO LONGER IN
EFFECT.

ALONG WITH THE WINDS...THE TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE 60S BY LATE
AFTERNOON...AND INTO THE 50S MONDAY MORNING.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
120 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 1990

...COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE...

A COLD FRONT IS MOVING THORUGH THE BEAUMONT/PORT ARTHUR/ORANGE
METROPOLITAN AREA.  AT 1256 PM CDT...THE COLD FRONT MOVED ACROSS THE
JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT WITH THE WINDS SHIFTING TO THE
NORTHWEST AND INCREASING 15 TO 25 MPH.  AT THE TIME OF THE FRONTAL
PASSAGE...THE WIND GUSTED TO 39 MPH AT THE PORT ARTHUR NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT. THE
RAIN BEGAN FALLING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT AND THE TEMPERATURES
DROPPED FROM 81 DEGREES AT NOON TO 71 DEGREES AT 1 PM CDT.

THE WINDS WILL CONTINUE OUT OF THE NORTH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT.  THE TEMNPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO FALL REACHING THE
LOW 50S BY MONDAY MORNING.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
140 PM CDT MON OCT 15 1990

A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO THE LAKE CHARLES AREA WITHIN
THE NEXT HOUR. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL
ACCOMPANY THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM.

AT 1:30 PM THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS FRONT WAS SHOWN FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF ALEXANDRIA TO JUST WEST OF VINTON THROUGH PORT ARTHUR TO 15 MILES EAST
OF GALVESTON AND INTO THE WESTERN GULF. MOVEMENT OF THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM
IS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

AHEAD AND BEHIND THE FRONTAL SYSTEM A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS...RAIN..AND A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS AREA SHOWN MAINLY SOUTH OF A LUFKIN MONROE LINE TO THE
COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.