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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 30, 1992Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1992, 4:26 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1992, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1800 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1800 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 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 302128 RRA
TORLCH
LAC019-302230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
426 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...CALCASIEU PARISH
 
AT 525 PM CDT...A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM
JUST SOUTHEAST OF DE QUINCY...TO JUST NORTH OF SULPHUR...TO JUST
NORTHWEST OF VINTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED A TORNADO
IN THE DE QUINCY AREA.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED! BUILDING.  GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE
PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant61 min
Jun 29, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHGrant, LaSalle, Rapides67 min
Jun 29, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHRapides27 min
Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHLaSalle, Rapides61 min
Jun 29, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides59 min
Jun 30, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard67 min
Jun 30, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHCalcasieu51 min
Jun 30, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHCameron45 min
Jun 30, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHJefferson Davis29 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.