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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 4, 1992Jasper County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 12:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin65 min
Mar 4, 12:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHAngelina, Nacogdoches116 min
Mar 4, 1:24 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHNacogdoches2 hr
Mar 4, 3:27 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHNacogdoches2 hr

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.