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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 3, 1992Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1992, 3:29 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1992, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Vernon Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Vernon, LA
Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Vernon, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 396 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 032030 RRA
TORLCH
LAC115-032130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
329 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...VERNON PARISH
 
AT 325 PM THE VERNON PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NEAR ROSEPINE. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERTORM IN
THE AREA OF THE REPORT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOS TO
DEVELOPE OVER VERNON PARISH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED BUILDING.  GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE
PRIEFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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 3, 1:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

TXZ033-031915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
118 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

A SEVERE TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
EAST TEXAS COUNTIES...SABINE...NACOGDOCHES & SAN AUGUSTINE.

AT 115PM CDT RADAR INDICATES A STRONG THUNDESTORM BETWEEN LUFKIN AND
NACOGDOCHES MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.  THE TRACK OF THIS STORM WILL
TAKE IT OVER LAKE SAM RAYBURN...ACROSS SOUTHERN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY AND
INTO SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY.

GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.  THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN PARTS OF EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND
ESPECIALLY NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA.

BOATERS ON BOTH SAM RAYBURN AND TOLEDO BEND xSHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION
TO LOCAL WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTERED WATERS IF THREATENING WEATHER IS
SITED.
DJ

NNNN

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-031945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
140 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR VERNON..GRANT..LA SALLE..
AND RAPIDES PARISHES...

AT 125 PM...SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN..WERE IN AN AREA ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF
WINNFIELD TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUFKIN TEXAS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF VERNON..GRANT..
LA SALLE..AND RAPIDES PARISHES DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THEY MOVE
EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:32 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-032040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
240 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR VERNON..GRANT..LA SALLE..
AND RAPIDES PARISHES...

AT 225 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN..WERE IN AN AREA FROM WELL NORTH OF JENA TO BUNKIE TO SOUTH OF
LAKE LIVINGSTON IN EAST TEXAS TO MANSFIELD.
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THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF VERNON..GRANT..
LA SALLE..AND RAPIDES PARISHES DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THEY MOVE
EAST 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
Jun 3, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	LaSalle	55 min
Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	66 min
Jun 3, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	55 min
Jun 3, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.