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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 23, 1992Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 23, 1992, 8:57 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 23, 1992, 8:57 PM CST (02:57 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 1992, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 23, 9:20 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Lafayette, LA
Nov 23, 9:25 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Vermilion, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 1021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Nov 23, 3:28 PM CST, 5 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 8:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	57 min
Nov 24, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	68 min
Nov 24, 8:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	62 min
Nov 24, 8:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	50 min
Nov 24, 9:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.