Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1992, 7:10 PM CST for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1992, 7:10 PM CST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1992, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- 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, 1.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 050110 FFWBPT TXC457-050515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 710 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN TYLER COUNTY A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS SOUTHERN TYLER COUNTY BETWEEN 6 PM AND 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED FLOODING ON U.S. HIGHWAY 69...WITH WATER REPORTED OVER THE ROAD SOUTH OF WARREN. THE TYLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ALSO REPORTS TRIPLE D RANCH ROAD...LAKE HYATT ROAD...AND BUMPSTEAD ROAD WASHED OUT FROM THE HEAVY RAINS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID THESE ROADS TONIGHT. FLOODED ROADS ARE VERY DANGEROUS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVE D...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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, 2:49 PM CST, 4 hours 21 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, 4 hours 20 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 4:40 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-042345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 440 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 425 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN FROM JUST EAST OF LEESVILLE...TO LAKE CHARLES...AND WEST TO ORANGE TEXAS. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN HOUSTON...KOUNTZE...AND BEAUMONT. ELSEWHERE A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...AND EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JENA...TO THE NORTHERN END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...TO LUFKIN TEXAS...AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN HIGH ISLAND TEXAS AND CAMERON. THE ENTIRE WEATHER SYATEM CONTNINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 5:41 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-050045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 AT 525 PM...A LARGE AREA OD RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF EAST TEXAS AND OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LUFKIN TEXAS...MANFIELD LOUISIANA...WINNFIELD LOUISIANA...JENA LOUISIANA LINE AND EXTENDED TO LIBERTY...BEAUMONT...PORT ARTHUR...AND SABINE PASS IN TEXAS AND TO CAMERON...LAKE CHARLES...AND JENNINGS IN LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR KINDER AND EUNICE TO THE SULPHUR...LAKE CHARLES...AND JENNINGS AREAS AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JUST WEST OF KOUNTZE. SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND CAMERON. THE ENTIRE WEATLHER SYSTEM CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 5:48 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-050045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION 3RD PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 AT 525 PM...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF EAST TEXAS AND OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LUFKIN TEXAS...MANFIELD LOUISIANA...WINNFIELD LOUISIANA...JENA LOUISIANA LINE AND EXTENDED TO LIBERTY...BEAUMONT...PORT ARTHUR...AND SABINE PASS IN TEXAS AND TO CAMERON...LAKE CHARLES...AND JENNINGS IN LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR KINDER AND EUNICE TO THE SULPHUR...LAKE CHARLES...AND JENNINGS AREAS AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JUST WEST OF KOUNTZE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING ARE LIKELY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS IN ALLEN ...CALCASIEU...JEFF DAVIS...AND EVANGELINE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND CAMERON. THE ENTIRE WEATHER SYSTEM CONTINUED TO MkOVE SLOWLY EAST.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 6:43 PM CST, 27 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-050145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 640 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 AT 625 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED FROM JUST WEST OF OAKDALE TO THE KINDER AREA TO 15 MILES EAST OF LAKE CHARLES AND TO BETWEEN LAKE CHARLES AND CAMERON. THE LINE APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW PLACES WILL ACCOMPANY THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES THROUGH ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS...AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. A LARGE ALMOST SOLID AREA OF RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM A LUFKIN TEXAS...MANSFIELD...WINNFIELD...JENA LINE SOUTH TO THE COASTAL SECTIONS FROM PORT ARTHUR TEXAS TO BETWEEN CAMERON AND WHITE LAKE. PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN IN THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND WHITE LAKE. THE ENTIRE WEATHER SYSTEM CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST.
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.