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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 18, 1992Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1992, 2:32 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 1992, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 1992, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Special weather statement, Mar 18, 11:08 AM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 18, 11:09 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 18, 11:55 AM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-181845-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1155 AM CST WED MAR 18 1992

AT 1125 AM...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS
SHOWN FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA TO AROUND DE RIDDER.
ANOTHER BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST SOUTH OF
LEESVILLE TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE QUINCY.

PERSONS IN BEAUREGARD...GRANT AND SOUTHERN VERNON PARISHES SHOULD BE
ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF VERY
HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

OTHERWISE...LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WAS SHOWN FROM WINNFIELD TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO BETWEEN 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE AND KOUNTZE TEXAS TO ALONG THE COAST AND 100
OFFSHORE FROM ATCHAFALAYA BAY TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS.

ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING AROUND LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS.
TO 90 MILES OFFSHORE FROM ATCHAFALAYA BAY TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Mar 18, 12:49 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-181945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1248 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992

AT 1225 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN
FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF FORT POLK TO 10 MILES WEST DE QUINCY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING
AREAS ACROSS VERNON AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

OTHERWISE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN IN
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERTY TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF
WOODVILLE.

RAIN MIXED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM BETWEEN WINNFIELD
AND ALEXANDRIA TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO BETWEEN 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATON
ROUGE AND LEESVILLE TO AROUND BEAUMONT TEXAS.

LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN WERE DETECTED FROM JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE TO ALONG
THE COAST AND TO 70 MILES OFFSHORE FROM ATCHAFALAYA BAY TO CAMERON.

ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE TEXAS UPPER COAST FROM GALVESTON
TO SABINE PASS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Mar 18, 1:14 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
114 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...

AT 110 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM VOTAW IN HARDIN COUNTY TO SOUTH OF WARREN IN TYLER
COUNTY TO NEAR JASPER. STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF WARREN.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MPH.

THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. LOCAL STREET FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP AND EYE ON THE WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKfLY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR
SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED.

STAY TUNED TO THE NWS RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

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Special weather statement, Mar 18, 1:54 PM CST, 38 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
148 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA
   UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING...

AT 125 PM...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA TO JUST WEST OF KINDER.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS
AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS RAPIDES...ALLEN AND EVANGELINE PARISHES DURING
THE NEXT HOUR AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST
TEXAS FROM JUST SOUTH OF JASPER TO 10 MILES NORTH OF LIBERTY.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE SHOWN
FROM BETWEEN WINNFIELD AND ALEXANDRIA TO THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST CORNER OF
MISSISSIPPI TO BETWEEN OPELOUSAS AND FORT POLK TO 10 MILES EAST OF
DE QUINCY.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM AROUND LAFAYETTE TO 20
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE TO ALONG THE COAST AND OVER THE ADJACENT
COASTAL WATERS FROM ATC%HAFALAYA BAY TO VERMILION BAY.

ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS NEAR HOUSTON...BAYTOWN
AND RAYBURN LAKE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 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 18, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	58 min
Mar 18, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	60 min
Mar 18, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	59 min

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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.