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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 3, 1992, 6:03 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 1992, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 1992, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 2344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 040005 TORLCH LAC115-040045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 603 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERNON PARISH AT 557 PM CST...THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST CORNER OF VERNON PARISH OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF FORT POLK. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO..p.LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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, Nov 3, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-032145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 145 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 .....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS..... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR MOST OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN TEXAS....ANGELINA...TRINITY... SABINE...NACOGDOCHES...SAN AUGUSTINE... AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... HARDIN...JASPER...JEFFERSON...NEWTON... ORANGE...POLK...AND TYLER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A STRONG...FAST MOVING COLD FRONT THAT IS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THE FRONT IS TRIGGERING A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT THROUGH NACOGDOCHES AND LUFKIN TO LAKE LIVINGSTON. THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS FOR LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND ISOLATED TORNADOES AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. JJ \ NNNN
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 1:46 PM CST, 4 hours 17 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 146 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT...LA SALLE...RAPIDES...ALLEN... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND VERNON PARISHES. AT 128 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN COVERED MUCH OF THE AREA FROM CONROE TEXAS TO THE LUFKINTEXAS AREA AND THEN TO TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE OCCURRING FROM SULPHUR TO BETWEEN BEAUMONT AND RAYBURN LAKE IN EAST TEXAS... AND TO CONRtOE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 2:39 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-032140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT...LA SALLE...RAPIDES...ALLEN... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND VERNON PARISHES. AT 226 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... HAD DEVELOPED FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF CONROE TEXAS TO THE NORTHERN END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..WERE OCCURRING FROM MANSFIELD TO BETWEEN SULPHUR AND 15 MILES NORTH OF HOUSTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NOT DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA..CONDITIONS REMAIN RIPE FOR STRONG..EVEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOPMENT AT ANY TIME AS THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXTREMLY UNSTABLE.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 3:42 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-032240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 340 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT...LA SALLE...RAPIDES...ALLEN... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND VERNON PARISHES. AT 328 PM...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... WAS SHOWN FROM LIVINGSTON TEXAS TO THE MANSFIELD AREA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE SHOWN FROM WINNFIELD TO EITHER END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR ...TO BETWEEN HOUSTON AND HUNTSVILLE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 4:49 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-032350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 449 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT...LA SALLE...RAPIDES...ALLEN... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS...AND VERNON PARISHES. ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CST FOR THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT..LA SALLE..ALLEN.. EVANGELINE..AND RAPIDES PARISHES. AT 432 PM CST..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM 20 MILES EAST OF HOUSTON TEXAS TO JUST WEST OF WINNFIELD. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO VERNON..GRANT..AND RAPIDES PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE..WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..WERE OBSERVED FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUSTON TO LUFKIN..TO MANSFIELD..TO WINNFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 5:43 PM CST, 20 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-040050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 545 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM CST FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING...ALLEN...BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...JEFFERSON DAVIS ...AND VERNON PARISHES. ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CST FOR THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INCLUDING GRANT..LA SALLE..RAPIDES... ALLEN AND EVANGELINE PARISHES. AT 525 PM CST..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD TO JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY TEXAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO VERNON..GRANT..AND RAPIDES PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..WERE SHOWN OVER EAST TEXAS AND LOUISIANA FROM WEST OF HOUSTON TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF :PORT ARTHUR AND EXTENDING NORTHEAST OVER LOUISIANA TO THE SHREVEPORT..MONROE AREAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
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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.