Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1992, 12:40 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1992, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, Jun 1, 8:37 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 835 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 825 AM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED FROM BETWEEN BUNKIE AND JENA TO BETWEEN MANY AND SHREVEPORT ACROSS NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NEAR LONGVIEW TEXAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS IN RAPIDES...GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN NEW IBERIA AND THE VERMILION BAY AREA EXTENDING OFFSHORE 50 MILEhS INTO THE GULF. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED ALONG THE COAST FROM HIGH ISLAND TEXAS NORTHWARD TO NORTHWEST OF BEAUMONT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 935 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 925 AM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS SHOWN NORTH OF A MANY BUNKIE LINE EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN LOUISIANA. THIS ;ARGE AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS IN GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WAS SHOWN BETWEEN LIBERTY AND BEAUMONT EXTENDING NORTH ALONG THE NECHES RIVER TO THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF RAYBURN LAKE. IN THIS CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS A TORNADO WAS REPORTED DURING THE LAST HOUR IN THE VICINITY OF BEAUMONT. A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWN IN THE VICINITY OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT K15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ046-048-011700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 955 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 .....TORNADO WARNING FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 0945 AM CDT..... AT 0947 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORS OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED A COUPLE SMALL TONADOES NEAR THE JEFF COUNTY AIRPORT ALONG WITH SEVERAL SMALL FUNNEL CLOUDS. THESE THUNDERSORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD ORANGE...JASPER...HARD NEWTON COUNTIES AND COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FUNNEL CLOUDS OR POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1035 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 1025 AM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS SHOWN NORTH OF A MANY ALEXANDRIA LINE EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN LOUISIANA. THIS LARGE AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS IN GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WAS SHOWN BETWEEN LIBERTY AND BEAUMONT EXTENDING NORTH ALONG THE NECHES RIVER TO THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF RAYBURN LAKE. IN THIS CLUSTER EXTENDED EAST INTO THE EXTREME PORTIONS OF CALCASIEU PARISH. A SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWN IN THE VICINITY OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY EXTENDING NORTH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 11:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1130 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 1125 AM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... HAS MOVED INTO THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM BEAUMONT TO LAKE CHARLES AND NORTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF DERIDDER. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WAS SHOWN IN THE VICINITY OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...BETWEEN MORGAN CITY AND BATON ROUGE AND SOUTH AND EAST OF ALEXANDRIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWN OVER THE NORTHERN GULF FROM JUST SOUTH OF CAMERON TO 100 MILES INTO THE GULF. MOVEMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 12:31 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1230 PM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 1225 PM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM BEAUMONT TO WEST OF LAFAYETTE AND NORTHWARD TO DERIDDER AND OAKDALE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WAS SHOWN IN THE VICINITY OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...BETWEEN MORGAN CITY AND BATON ROUGE AND SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWN OIN EAST TEXAS FROM NORTH OF HOUSTON NORTHWARD THROUGH LUFKIN AND JUST SOUTH OF LONGVIEW. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 35 min |
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.