Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 15, 1991, 3:02 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 1991, 3:02 AM CST (09:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 1991, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 150903 TORLCH LAC019-150930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 302 AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CALCASIEU PARISH AT 300 AM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO IN THE MOSS BLUFF AREA. THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LAKE CHARLES AND MOSS BLUFF AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CATUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jan 14, 11:26 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-150635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1130 PM CST MON JAN 14 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM TUESDAY MORNING FOR CALCASIEU...CAMERON...ALLEN...BEAUREGARD...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON. AT 1125 PM...RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM GALVESTON NORTHWARD TO NEAR SILSBEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM SOUTH OF PALACIOS EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO NEAR LUFKIN AND yTHEN INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA NEAR THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR AND TO JUST WEST OF ALEXANDRIA. . THIS LARGE AREA CONTINUES TO MOVE TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jan 15, 12:17 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ046-48-150715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1217 AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991 A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230AM CST. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM JASPER TO BEAUMONT TO 50 MILES OFFSHORE. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM SYSTEM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 39 MPH AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BLANKET MOST OF JEFFERSON COUNTY CAUSING URBAN FLOODING. AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT OVER A HALF OF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN 12 MINUTES WITH RAIN STILL FALLING. HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVEt EASTWARD INTO ORANGE COUNTY AND WILL CAUSE SOME PONDING PROBLEMS THERE ALSO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 4AM CST BUT MAY BE CANCELLED WHEN THESE STORMS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jan 15, 12:45 AM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-150740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1244 AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM TUESDAY MORNING FOR CALCASIEU...CAMERON...ALLEN...BEAUREGARD...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON. AT 1229 AM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM THE KIRBYVILLE TEXAS AREA...ACROSS SABINE PASS...TO 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON LOUISIANA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS PRESENT SPEED AND DIRECTION THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS AND INTO CENTRAL BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND WEST CAMERON PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE ANTICIPATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHERWISE...THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED WEST OF A WHITE LAKE... VILLE PLATTE...JENA LINE...OVER TEXAS TO THE GALVESTON... LAKE LIVINGSTON...AND SAN AUGUSTINE AREAS. RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE DETECTED OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE LOUISIANA TO FREEPORT TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Jan 15, 1:01 AM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before
TXZ046-048-150800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 101 AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130AM CST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EASTWARD INTO LOUISIANA AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT OVERLAND. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR BON WEIR TO CAMERON..LOUISIANA TO 40 SOUTH OF SEA RIM STATE PARK. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. SOME WIND DAMAGE AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY TEXAS AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH. SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN BRIDGE CITY. DJK NNNN
Local storm report, Jan 15, 1:12 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
ATTN SELS BPT
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
115AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991
MIDNIGHT CST BIG HILL PETROLEUM RESERVE APPROX 240/16 FROM BPT...
TWO MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED...OTHER SMALL BUILDINGS DAMAGED
ALSO.
1215-30AM REPORTS FROM PUBLIC OF 1/4 INCH TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT
BRIDGE CITY, PORT ARTHUR AND PORT ACRES.
DJKSpecial weather statement, Jan 15, 2:51 AM CST, 11 minutes before
LAZ005-006-007-008-011-012-150930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 248 AM CST TUE JAN 15 1991 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CALCASIEU...CAMERON...ALLEN.. BEAUREGARD...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF CAMERON HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 245 AM...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE NAMED PARISHES HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE AREAD BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAD DIMINISHED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 63 min |
| Jan 15, 1:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 60 min |
| Jan 15, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 62 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.