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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 28, 1991Grant Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1991, 10:09 PM CDT for Grant Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 1991, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 1991, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 2308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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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 28, 4:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 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, 4 hours 53 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

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
640 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

AT 625 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM NORTHEAST
OF LAFAYETTE TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI.

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN JUST SOUTHEAST
OF BATON ROUGE.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE INDICATED
FROM NEAR SHREVEPORT TO LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 7:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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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 28, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	28 min
Apr 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	32 min
Apr 29, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline	59 min
Apr 29, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	55 min
Apr 29, 4:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Grant, LaSalle, Rapides	3 hr

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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.