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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1992, 9:27 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1992, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1992, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 1050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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
Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 63 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.