Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 1:48 PM CST for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1992, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1992, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 051951 SVRLCH LAC113-052045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 148 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERMILION PARISH AT 145 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN MIDWAY BETWEEN PECAN ISLAND AND VERMILION BAY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF INTERCOASTAL CITY AND VERMILION BAY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...AND SHOULD BE ALERT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAI L...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Mar 5, 8:32 AM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
830 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992
TIME REPORT
750 AM PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY NEAR
FORKED ISLAND IN CENTRAL VERMILION PARISH...12 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ABBEVILLE OR 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LAFAYETTE. NO DAMAGE WAS FOUND.
803 AM 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE LAFAYETTE PARISH
SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE.Special weather statement, Mar 5, 9:42 AM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-051645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 935 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1 PM... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ACADIA...EVANGELINE... AND LAFAYETTE PARISH THIS MORNING... AT 925 AM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE GULF 30 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND 30 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...ROUGH SEAS..AND REDUCE VISIBILITY TO BELOW ONE MILE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST..SOUTHCENTRAL ..AND SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA. THEY WERE GENERALLY SOUTH OF LINE FROM BEAUMONT TO SIMMESPORT AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM GALVESTON TO VERMILION BAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 10:35 AM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-051740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1035 AM CST THU MAR 5 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1 PM... ...A FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ACADIA...EVANGELINE... AND LAFAYETTE PARISH THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1025 AM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE JUST EAST OF PORT ARTHUR...JUST SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES...AND OVER THE GULF 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SABINE PASS AND 30 AND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAMERON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS SOUTHWEST..SOUTHCENTRAL ..AND SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THEY WERE GENERALLY SOUTH OF LINE FROM BEAUMONT TO NATCHEZ AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO THE COAST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO VERMILION BAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 2:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 4:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 116 min |
| Mar 5, 6:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 12:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 67 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.