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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 26, 1992Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1992, 1:49 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1992, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 1992-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1403 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 1992-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
1403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon58 min
May 25, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides69 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides60 min
May 25, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper69 min
May 25, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHSabine57 min
May 25, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAngelina64 min

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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.