Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1992, 3:27 PM CST for Nacogdoches County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1992, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1992, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nacogdoches County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 KBPT 042127 FFWBPT TXC347-042330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 327 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...NACOGDOCHES COUNTY AT 300 PM CST THE NACOGDOCHES POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS HAD BEEN CLOSED IN THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES. THE PEARL STREET BRIDGE OVER THE BONITA CREEK WAS CLOSED DUE TO WATER COMING OVER THE BRIDGE. THE NACOGDOCHES SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED A NUMBER OF HIGHWAYS HAD WATER OVER THEM IN LOW LYING PLACES...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY. AT 320 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAD MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST OF NACOGDOCHES. SCATTERED AREAS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED INTO THE EVENING HOURS THROUGHOUT THE LAKES AuREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Mar 4, 12:40 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-041940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1240 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 1230 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO AS IT PASSED THROUGH LIBERTY COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER NOON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST TEXAS THAT EXTENDED WEST OF THE TEXAS..LOUISIANA BORDER FROM TOLEDO BEND TO SABINE PASS. SHOWERS WERE ALSO OVER THE MARSHES >AND COASTAL WATERS FROM PECAN ISLAND TO VERMILION BAY.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-042040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 135 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 125 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND WAS MOVING EAST INTO WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 2:49 PM CST, 38 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 225 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM THE KIRBYVILLE AREA TO JUST WEST OF PORT ARTHUR. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS SHOWN OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN HOUSTON TEXAS AND MANSFIELD TO BETWEEN CAMERON AND WINNFIELD. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN CROWLEY AND ALEXANDRIA AND FROM JUST WEST OF THE BATON ROUGE AREA TO MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 2:50 PM CST, 37 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 245 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 225 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM THE KIRBYVILLE AREA TO JUST WEST OF PORT ARTHUR. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS SHOWN OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN HOUSTON TEXAS AND MANSFIELD TO BETWEEN CAMNERON AND WINNFIELD. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN CROWLEY AND ALEXANDRIA AND FROM JUST WEST OF THE BATON ROUGE AREA TO MORGAN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 12:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Angelina, Nacogdoches | 116 min |
| Mar 4, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 68 min |
| Mar 4, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.