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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 26, 1991Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1991, 10:46 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1991, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1991, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBPT 270346
TORBPT
TXC457-270445-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1046 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
 
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN TYLER COUNTY
 
AT 1045 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO 10 MILES
WEST OF WARREN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
RESIDENTS IN WARREN...HILLISTER...AND SPURGER SHOULD TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
NNNN

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

Local storm report, Apr 26, 8:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 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, 1 hour 55 minutes before

LAZ001>003-005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-262345-

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, 1 hour 50 minutes before

LAZ001>003-005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-260250-

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, 1 hour 48 minutes before

LAZ001>003-005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-270250-

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, 1 hour 12 minutes before

TXZ046-033-270530-

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.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 9:51 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

LAZ001>003-005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-270350-

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

AT 930 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN NEAR BATON ROUGE AND
VILLE PLATTE.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES
AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL.

A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN OVER THE SOUTHERN END OF
RAYBURN LAKE.

OTHERWISE...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI...TO BATON ROUGE...TO BETWEEN OAKDALE AND KINDER.   SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN IN EAST TEXAS FROM LUFKIN...TO
WOODVILLE...TO CONROE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Tyler	56 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

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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.