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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 26, 1991Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1991, 9:49 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1991, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1991, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Tyler County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 26, 10:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Tyler, TX
Apr 26, 10:45 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Tyler, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 8.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Apr 26, 7:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 8:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

ATTN SELS BPT

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
720 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991

610 PM CDT  KFDM-TV, BEAUMONT RELAYED REPORT OF 3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL IN
            LABELLE, IN SOUTH JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT.

715 PM CDT  KBMT-TV, BEAUMONT RELAYED THE FOLLOWING REPORTS...

       545 PM CDT  GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN LABELLE AND FANNETT.
       610 PM CDT  1 TO 11/2 INCH HAIL IN WEST SIDE OF PORT ARTHUR.
       630 PM CDT  GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN VIDOR, TX.

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:51 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
850 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991

AT 825 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED NEAR LAFAYETTE...OPELOUSAS
AND BETWEEN KINDER AND WELCH.

PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY HEAVY
RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING PLACES...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SHOWN IN TEXAS NEAR CONROE
AND BETWEEN CONROE AND LIBERTY.

OTHERWISE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM SOUTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI...TO JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE...TO LAFAYETTEs...TO JUST EAST
OF KINDER.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:56 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
850 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991

AT 825 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED NEAR LAFAYETTE...OPELOUSAS
AND BETWEEN KINDER AND WELCH.

PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY HEAVY
RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING PLACES...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SHOWN IN TEXAS NEAR CONROE
AND BETWEEN CONROE AND LIBERTY.

OTHERWISE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM SOUTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI...TO JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE...TO LAFAYETTE...TO JUST EAST
OF KINDER.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 8:58 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
850 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991

AT 825 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED NEAR LAFAYETTE...OPELOUSAS
AND BETWEEN KINDER AND WELCH.

PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY HEAVY
RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING PLACES...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SHOWN IN TEXAS NEAR CONROE
AND BETWEEN CONROE AND LIBERTY.

OTHERWISE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM SOUTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI...TO JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE...TO LAFAYETTE...TO JUST EAST
OF KINDER.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 9:34 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
934 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PARTS OF EAST AND SE TEXAS...

AT 930 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF WARREN IN SOUTHWEST
TYLER COUNTY MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL.

PERSONS IN AND NEAR WOODVILLE SHOULD BE READY FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVES OVER THE CITY.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THE GULLF COAST
NORTHWARD THROUGH EAST TEXAS ON INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS EVENING.

PERSONS SHOULD  REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER
THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	45 min
Apr 27, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	58 min
Apr 27, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	61 min
Apr 26, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	59 min
Apr 26, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper	54 min
Apr 26, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	66 min
Apr 27, 12:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1991 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.