Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 1992, 2:47 PM CST for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1992, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1992, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
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 4, 12:40 PM CST, 2 hours 7 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 1:36 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-042040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 135 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM.. AT 125 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND WAS MOVING EAST INTO WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA.
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, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 68 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 |
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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.