Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 10:30 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1992, 10:30 PM CST (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1992, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 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 00:00Z, 4.5 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.
- 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
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, 3 hours 29 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. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 7:43 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-300240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 743 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 AT 725 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST TEXAS...AND WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE SMALL COMMUNITY OF PINELAND TEXAS AND ALONG THE TRINITY RIVER...JUST SOUTH OF ROMANO. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO VERNON PARISH WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..SMALL HAIL.. AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST GRANT PARISH...BETWEEN NATCHITOCHES AND JENA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 9:22 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-300440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 923 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 AT 920 PM CST...THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST TEXAS BETWEEN KIRBYVILLE AND JASPER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE THE EXTREME SOUTH PART OF VERNON PARISH AND INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF BEAUREGARD PARISH BY 930 PM CST. STRONG GUSTY WINwDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO WESTERN LOUISIANA.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 10:13 PM CST, 17 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-300540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1013 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 AT 1010 PM CST...THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WESTERN PART OF BEAUREGARD PARISH IN THE MERRYVILLE AREA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS dTHUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH BEAUREGARD PARISH BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 1100 PM CST THIS SUNDAY EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, LaSalle | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Sabine | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.