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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1992, 9:10 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1992, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1992, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 011410 TORBPT TXC245-011445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 910 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...JEFFERSON COUNTY A TORNADO WAS SITED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT AT 0905 CDT. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THERE WERE OTHER ISOLATED FUNNEL CLOUDS SITED IN THIS AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE.|..SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 4:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ033-011015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 413 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA THIS MORNING... AT 410 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING BETWEEN LUFKIN AND WOODVILLE AND EXTENDING TO THE EAST ACROSS THE SAM RAYBURN RESERVOIR...THEN TO JUST NORTH OF NEWTON AND JUST SOUTH OF LEESVILLE LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUFKIN AND 5 MILES NORTH OF NEWTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA SHOULD BE READY FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME GETTING TO EARLY MORNING DESTINATIONS AND REDUCE SPEEDS ON WET ROADS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE AT THE FIRyST SIGN OF THUNDERSTORMS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 4:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 443 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 430 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SHOWN FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF WOODVILLE TEXAS TO FORT POLK.. TO OAKDALE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS THROUGH VERNON PARISH AND THE WEST HALF OF RAPIDES PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD TO THE ALEXANDRIA AREA..TO 15 MILES NORTH OF BATON ROUGE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED JUST EAST OF HOUSTON AND IN THE GULF 50 MILES EAST OF GALVESTON...AND 100 MILES EAST THROUGH SOUTH OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 533 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 525 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUFKIN TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MANY..TO GLENMORA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF VERNON PARISH AND RAPIDES PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED 15 MILES NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA..AND BETWEEN MORGAN CITY AND BATON ROUGE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED 50 MILES EAST OF GALVESTON...AND 75 TO 125 MILES SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 633 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 625 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM JUST EAST OF SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS TO THE ALEXANDRIA AREA TO OAKDALE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEAST THROUGH VERNON..RAPIDES..AND GRANT PARISHES. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED JUST NORTHEAST OF GALVESTON AND NEAR WHITE LAKE..AND IN THE GULF FROM 40 TO 125 MILES SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES ANH HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-011340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 735 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1992 AT 725 AM CDT...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED FROM BETWEEN VILLE PLATTE AND JENA TO BETWEEN LEESVILLE AND MANSFIELD ACROSS TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NORTH OF SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS IN RAPIDES AND GRANT PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND BUNKIE AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS JUST NORTH OF CONROE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED ALONG THE COAST AND TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM HIGH ISLAND TEXAS TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 8:37 AM CDT, 33 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 38 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.