Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1992, 11:22 PM CST for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1992, 11:22 PM CST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 300527 SVRLCH LAC003-011-039-300630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1122 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...ALLEN PARISH...BEAUREGARD PARISH...EVANGELINE PARISH AT 1120 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE SABINE RIVER NORTHWEST OF DE QUINCY TO NEAR OAKDALE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL.B..VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 4 hours 21 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, 3 hours 39 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, 2 hours 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, 1 hour 9 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.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 10:48 PM CST, 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1048 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992
TIME REPORT
2220 PM 1/2 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY FAA FLIGHT SERVICE STATION AT
DE RI.DDER LOUISIANA.Special weather statement, Mar 29, 11:04 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TXZ046-300600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1104 PM CST SUN MAR 29 1992 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING THROUGH NORTHCENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY... AT 1100 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO LOUISIANA SHORTLY. RADAR IS ALSO SHOWING DEVELOPMENT OF ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM IN THE NEWTON AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AS THE STORM APPROACHES. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES WHILE INTENSE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. NNNN
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, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 60 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 |
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.