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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 28, 1992Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1991 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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, May 28, 3:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 5:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 7:19 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

TXZ033-046-048-290215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
719 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...

AT 715 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING
OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY
SOUTH OF A NACOGDOCHES - COLLEGE STATION LINE. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL
WAS IN SOUTHERN ANGELINA AND NORTHERN TYLER COUNTIES.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 30 MPH.

MUNEROUS REPORTS OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR SILSBEE HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. A REPORT OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WAS ALSO RECEIVED SOUTH OF SILSBEE NEAR LUMBERTON. HAIL WAS ALSO
REPORTED IN EVADALE.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE STORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA OR A WARNING IS
ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NWS RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	62 min
May 28, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	66 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	59 min
May 28, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vermilion	61 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.