Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 12:05 AM CST for Grant Parish, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 30, 1992, 12:05 AM CST (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:59 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | La Salle, 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, 5 hours 4 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, 4 hours 22 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 43 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, 1 hour 52 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, 1 hour 17 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, 1 hour 1 minute 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 29, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline | 68 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
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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.