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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1992, 8:02 PM CST for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1992, 8:02 PM CST (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1992, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1036 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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, Mar 18, 2:45 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
245 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992
TIME REPORT
230 PM SHERIFFS OFFICE IN DE RIDDER REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL
IN DE RIDDER.Special weather statement, Mar 18, 3:04 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ046-048-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 304 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 7 PM CST... AT 300 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM NEAR EVADALE IN JASPER COUNTY TO BETWEEN NEWTON AND DEWEYVILLE IN NEWTON COUNTY TO NEAR DE RIDDER LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING BETWEEN NEWTON AND DEWEYVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. THESE STORMS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR KIRBYVILLE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TAKE QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NWS RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST DEVELOPMETNTS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 4:39 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | LaSalle | 62 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.