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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1992, 5:46 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 132249 TORLCH LAC055-132315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 546 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...LAFAYETTE PARISH AT 540 PM CDT...THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF OFFICE RECEIVED A REPORT OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF CANRENCRO IN NORTHERN LAFAYETTE PARISH. A HOUSE WAS DAMAGED BY THIS STORM. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED IN CANRENCRO FROM THIS STORM. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAFAYETTE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 13, 1:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ033-046-132045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 144 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS AREA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HOUSTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR POLK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF HARDIN...JASPER...TYLER...ANGELINA AND NEWTON COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH YOUR COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE TO E RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PLEASE LISTEN TO LOCAL T.V. ...RADIO... AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ033-046-132245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 330 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA ... STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF JASPER..ANGELINA AND NEWTON COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH YOUR COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE TO E RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PLEASE LISTEN TO LOCAL T.V. ...RADIO... AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-132130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 346 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 AT 340 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER SOUTHERN VERNON PARISH 5 MILES NORTH OF DE RIDDER AND ALONG THE BEAUREGARD/CALCASIEU PARISH LINE 20 MILES NORTH OF ORANGE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN VERNON...BEAUREGARD...AND CALCASIEU PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 500 PM THIS AFTERNOON.
Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
429 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992
TIME LOCATION REPORT
420 PM CDT CALCASIEU PARISH CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF AND DE QUINCY
POLICE DEPARTMENTS REPORTED HIGH WINDS
BLEW A TREE ONTO HIGHWAY 27...5 MILES
SOUTH OF DE QUINCY. (19 NW LCH)Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 430 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 AT 425 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF LUFKIN EASTWARD ACROSS DERIDDER...BUNKIE AND BATON ROUGE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND DEQUINCY POLICE REPORTED STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND TREE DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 27...5 MILES SOUTH OF DEQUINCY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS OF SHORT DURATION AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN WEST ANDR NORTH OF LAKE CHARLES AND ALSO IN THE LAFAYETTE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 530 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 AT 525 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF LAKE CHARLES ACROSS LAFAYETTE TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE BATON ROUGE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE WIND GUSTED TO 39 MPH AT THE REGIONAL AIRPORT AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. A FEW POWER LINES HAS BEEN REPORTED DOWN IN PORTIONS OF EAST LAKE CHARLES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS OF SHORT DURATION AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SHOWN IN THE LEESVILLE FT. POLK AREAS AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN HOUSTON AND GALVESTON AND EAST OF LAKE LIVINGSTON.
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.