Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 20, 1992, 3:39 AM CST for Acadia Parish, Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 20, 1992, 3:39 AM CST (09:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 20, 1992, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, Nov 19, 10:50 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1049 PM CST THU NOV 20 1992 AT 1029 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM WOODVILLE TEXAS...TO THE PORT ARTHUR/BEAUMONT AREAS...TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TEXAS. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES INTO WESTERN CALCASIEU AND WESTERN CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO CAMERON WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM THE NORTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...TO BETWEEN HUNTSVILLE TEXAS AND VILLE PLATTE...TO BETWEEN CONROE TEXAS AND SULPHUR ...TO ALONG THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO SABINE PASS. THE AREA EXTENDED INTO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS. . ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 90 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAMERON TO VERMILION BAY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 19, 11:42 PM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1141 PM CST THU NOV 20 1992 AT 1125 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JASPER TEXAS...TO ALONG THE SABINE RIVER...TO 70 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TEXAS. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO CAMERON. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM MIDWAY BETWEEN LONGVIEW TEXAS AND SHREVEPORT...TO BETWEEN LUFKIN TEXAS AND ALEXANDRIA...TO BETWEEN CONROE TEXAS AND SULPHUR...TO ALONG THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO CAMERON. THE AREA EXTENDED INTO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS. . ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 70 MILES OFFSHORE FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY. AN ISOLATED SHOWER WAS LOCATED OVER DWHITE LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 20, 12:36 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1230 AM CST FRI NOV 20 1992 AT 1225 AM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EMBEDDED IN A LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD TOWARD SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM DERIDDER SOUTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF LAKE CHARLES AND OFFSHORE EAST OF SABINE PASS TO BEYOND 100 MILES INTO THE GULF. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO CAMERON. THE AREA OF OF RAIN WAS SHOWN FROM SOUTHEAST OF SHREVEPORT TO JUST WEST OF ALEXANDRIA AND SOUTHWARD TO NEAR LAKE CHARLES AND OFFSHORE INTO THE NORTHWEST GULF TO BEYOND 150 MILES. THIS AREA EXTENDED WESTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO JUST WEST OF HOUSTON AND LUFKIN. . ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 70 MILES OFFSHORE FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 12:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 68 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.