Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 1992, 1:07 PM CST for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1992, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1992, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 041907 SVRBPT TXC241-042015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 107 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY AT 105 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 96 AND IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM 6BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. NNNN
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 4, 12:40 PM CST, 27 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-041940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1240 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 1230 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO AS IT PASSED THROUGH LIBERTY COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER NOON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST TEXAS THAT EXTENDED WEST OF THE TEXAS..LOUISIANA BORDER FROM TOLEDO BEND TO SABINE PASS. SHOWERS WERE ALSO OVER THE MARSHES >AND COASTAL WATERS FROM PECAN ISLAND TO VERMILION BAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 12:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Angelina, Nacogdoches | 116 min |
| Mar 4, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Nacogdoches | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.