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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 29, 1992Sabine County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 7:32 PM CST for Sabine County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 1992, 7:32 PM CST (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1992, 8:30 PM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Sabine County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1992-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1992-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 29, 7:01 PM CST, 31 minutes before
TXZ033-046-300200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
701 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY...

AT 700 PM TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR
BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF JASPER...RIGHT ALONG THE
SOUTHERN END OF SAME RAYBURN RESERVOIR.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.  PERSONS IN NORTHERN
JASPER COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE ONSET OF THUNDERSTORMS AND MOVE
INDOORS.  BOATERS ON THE SOUTHERN END OF SAM RAYBURN RESERVOIR SHOULD
MOVE TO SHORyE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 7:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon60 min
Mar 29, 10:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard60 min
Mar 29, 11:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard, Evangeline68 min
Mar 30, 12:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant, LaSalle55 min
Mar 30, 12:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Evangeline65 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.