Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1992, 8:33 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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 29, 1992, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rapides Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rapides, 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 3567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 300134 TORLCH LAC079-300200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 833 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...RAPIDES PARISH AT 830 PM CDT...RAPIDES SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES REPORTED A LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD JUST NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA. IT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AND 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 29, 2:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-292040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF LOUISIANA UNTIL 8PM... AT 225 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCAATED JUST NORTH OF NATCHITOCHES AND 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAIL AND FLOODING OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS MOST WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED NORTH OF A LINE FROM DEQUINCEY TO BATON ROUGE. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF WATERS 40 MILES SOUTH OF PECAN ISLAND AND 40 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON. . MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-292140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 330 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF LOUISIANA UNTIL 8PM... AT 325 PM...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING INTENSE RAINFALL WERE LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF FT POLK...20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATCHITOCHES...AND JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAIL AND FLOODING OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS MOST WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED NORTH OF A LINE FROM DE RIDDER TO NEW ORLEANS. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OVER GULF WATER#S 80 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-292240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 445 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF LOUISIANA UNTIL 8PM... AT 425 PM...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED 25 AND 35 MILES NORTH OF BATON ROUGE...10 MILES NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF JENA ...NEAR NATCHITOCHES...AND IN THE ALEXANDRIA AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES COULD CAUSE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM DE RIDDER TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO MANSFIELD. . WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER EAST TEXAS FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIVINGSTON TO THE NORTHERN MOST END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM VERMILION BAY TO 50 TO 80 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-292340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF LOUISIANA UNTIL 8PM... AT 527 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE OCCURRING FROM HOUSTON TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT...AND FROM RAYBURN LAKE IN EAST TEXAS TO BETWEEN MANY AND MANSFIELD. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN FORT POLK ...NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND 10 MILES NORTH OF WINNFIELD...AND FROM BATON ROUGE TO ALONG THE COAST FROM VERMILION BAY TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN OVER EAST TEXAS NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON AND JUST NORTH OF WOODVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-300115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 620 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS..... AT 610 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACORSS HARDIN... NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS APPEARED TO BE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY BE MOVING ACROSS ORANGE... JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN HARDIN COUNTY. RESIDENTS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS... BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL ARE LIKELY. THERE WERE OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SAN AUGUSTINE AND SABINE COUNTIES WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO... T.V. AND NOAA WEATHEZR RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-292340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 647 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF LOUISIANA UNTIL 8PM... AT 630 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING NEAR MANY...NATCHITOCHES...ALEXANDRIA...NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND FROM 20 MILES EAST OF HOUSTON TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT. OTHERWISE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM LUFKIN TEXAS TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND THEN FROM NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO ALONG THE COAST NEAR ATCHAFALAYA BAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE SHOWN FROM JUST WEST OF HOUSTON TO BETWEEN SABINE PASS HAND 25 MILES NORTH OF BEAUMONT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 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 29, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, LaSalle, Rapides | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | LaSalle, Rapides | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 59 min |
| Jun 30, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 67 min |
| Jun 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 51 min |
| Jun 30, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 29 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992
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.