Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1991, 5:25 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1991, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1991, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.1
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
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-282130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 330 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 224 AND 225 BLANKET ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 10PM CDT TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA INCLUDING LUFKIN..NACOGDOCHES AND HEMPHILL. AT 330PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ROUGHLY FROM LONGVIEW TO SOUTH OF COLLEGE STATION. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA MARCHES EASTWARD AT ABOUT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS SYSTEM AS IT MOVED THROUGH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN TEXAS. 1 RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT A MINIMUM OF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE STORMS. SPECIFIC WARNINGS WILL MOSTLY LIKELY BE NEEDED ON THE STRONGEST OF THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS. STAY TUNE FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DJK NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:42 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
LAZ001>003-005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-282240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 440 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 425 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER MIDWAY BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM NORTH OF NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...TO WELL EAST OF BATON ROUGE...TO JUST EAST OF ALEXANDRIA. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN NEAR MORGAN CITY AND NEAR OAKDALE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Local storm report, Apr 28, 4:54 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SEVERE STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
445 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991
TIME PARISH CITY REPORT
2:22 PM ALLEN KINDER MARBLE SIZE HAIL (AZRAN 41/29)
2:50 PM LASALLE 8 W JENA 1/2 INCH HAIL (AZRAN 31/109)
3:10 PM LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE PEA SIZE HAIL ON THE WEST SIDE OF
LAFAYETTE
3:13 PM LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE 1/2 TO 1 INCH HAIL IN CITY
3:15 PM LAFAYETTE YOUNGSVILLE GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL (AZRAN 91/63)Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:16 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-282315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 516 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991 TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 224 AND 225 COVER ALL OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 10PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA INCLUDING LUFKIN..NACOGDOCHES AND HEMPHILL. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ANDERSON AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES TEXAS UNTIL 715PM CDT. HIGH WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD ON HIGHWAY 294 WEST OF ELKHART IN ANDERSON COUNTY. AT 510PM THE LEAD EDGE OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF NACOGDOCHES ACROSS LAKE LIVINGSTON TO NORTH OF CONROE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 20 TO 25 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM MOST OF THESE STORMS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS REQUIRING INDIVIDUAL WARNINGS. STAY TUNE FOR THE LATEST WARNINGS AND WATCH INFORMATION. DJK NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Angelina | 43 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.