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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 30, 1992Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT for Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 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 302319
TORLCH
LAC053-302345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
616 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH
 
AT 610 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MIDWAY BETWEEN
JENNINGS AND HAYES. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS SHOWN WITHIN A CLUSTER
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF JENNINGS
TO BETWEEN LAKE ARTHUR AND HAYES.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 25 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.

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 30, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

TXZ033-046-048-302000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
205 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR MOST OF
EAST TEXAS FROM ANGELINA AND SABINE COUNTIES SOUTH TO JEFFERSON AND
ORANGE AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...

AT 200 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE OF LINES OF SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.   ONE LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF
LUFKIN ACROSS NORTHERN TYLER COUNTY INTO CENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY.
ANOTHER LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR PALESTINE TO COLLEGE STATION.  THE
STRONGEST STORMS WERE NOTED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUFKIN AND 10 MILES
NORTH OF WOODVILLE.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN EAST TEXAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.  STRONG DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALL
POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.  YOU SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO
SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THUNDERSTORMS AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

NNNN

Local storm report, Jun 30, 2:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
215 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

TIME           LOCATION           REPORT

120 PM CDT    BEAUREGARD PARISH   DELAYED REPORT OF 3/4 INCH HAIL AT
                                  SINGER LOUISIANA- 342/33 FROM LCH.

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-302030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING OUT OF EAST TEXAS AND
THEY WILL MOVE INTO BEAUREGARD PARISH WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

PEOPLE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF
STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.
FROM BATON ROUGE SOUTHWARD TO VERMILION AND ATCHAFALAYA BAYS AND EXTENDED
OFFSHORE 60 MILES. HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER GULF WATERS WERE 15 MILES SOUTH
OF JENNERETTE...20 MILES SOUTH OF VERMILION BAY...AND 35 MILES SOUTH OF
ATCHAFALAYA BAY. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...INTENSE RAINFALL...AND ROUGH SEAS MARINERS IN THIS
AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-302030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING OUT OF EAST TEXAS AND
THEY WILL MOVE INTO BEAUREGARD PARISH WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

PEOPLE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF
STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.

Local storm report, Jun 30, 3:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
333 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

TIME           LOCATION           REPORT

320 PM CDT    BEAUREGARD PARISH   FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED IN MERRYVILLE.

Local storm report, Jun 30, 6:06 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
605 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1992

TIME           LOCATION           REPORT

555 PM CDT    CAMERON PARISH      PHI HELICOPTERS IN CAMERON REPORTED
                                  A WIND GUST TO 70 KNOTS.

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, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	27 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

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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.