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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 20, 1992Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 20, 1992, 12:52 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 20, 1992, 12:52 AM CST (06:52 UTC)
Expired
Nov 20, 1992, 2:00 AM CST
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 00:00Z on 1992-11-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 370 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1992-11-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 200659
TORLCH
LAC011-200800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1252 AM CST FRI NOV 20 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BEAUREGARD PARISH
 
AT 1253 AM CST THE BEAUREGARD PARISH SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A SMALL
TORNADO HAD TOUCHED DOWN 1 MILE SOUTH OF THE DE RIDDER CITY LIMITS ON
HIGHWAY 27 CLOSE TO THE OVERPASS.  SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWNED.
 
RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA MOVING EAST AT
12 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, Nov 19, 10:50 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200540-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1049 PM CST THU NOV 20 1992

AT 1029 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM
WOODVILLE TEXAS...TO THE PORT ARTHUR/BEAUMONT AREAS...TO 40 MILES SOUTH
OF GALVESTON TEXAS.  THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES INTO WESTERN CALCASIEU AND
WESTERN CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM
SABINE PASS TO CAMERON WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA.  THE
AREA EXTENDED FROM THE NORTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...TO BETWEEN
HUNTSVILLE TEXAS AND VILLE PLATTE...TO BETWEEN CONROE TEXAS AND SULPHUR
...TO ALONG THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO SABINE PASS.  THE AREA EXTENDED
INTO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS.
.
ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 90 MILES
OFFSHORE FROM CAMERON TO VERMILION BAY.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 19, 11:42 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200640-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1141 PM CST THU NOV 20 1992

AT 1125 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM
JASPER TEXAS...TO ALONG THE SABINE RIVER...TO 70 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON
TEXAS.  THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO CALCASIEU AND
CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE
PASS TO CAMERON.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST LOUISIANA.  THE
AREA EXTENDED FROM MIDWAY BETWEEN LONGVIEW TEXAS AND SHREVEPORT...TO BETWEEN
LUFKIN TEXAS AND ALEXANDRIA...TO BETWEEN CONROE TEXAS AND SULPHUR...TO
ALONG THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO CAMERON.  THE AREA EXTENDED INTO
THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL WATERS FROM FREEPORT TO SABINE PASS.
.
ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 70 MILES
OFFSHORE FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY.

AN ISOLATED SHOWER WAS LOCATED OVER DWHITE LAKE.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 20, 12:36 AM CST, 16 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-200735-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1230 AM CST FRI NOV 20 1992

AT 1225 AM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EMBEDDED IN A
LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD TOWARD SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM DERIDDER SOUTHWARD TO JUST
WEST OF LAKE CHARLES AND OFFSHORE EAST OF SABINE PASS TO BEYOND 100 MILES
INTO THE GULF.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO CALCASIEU AND
CAMERON PARISHES AND THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE
PASS TO CAMERON.

THE AREA OF OF RAIN WAS SHOWN FROM SOUTHEAST OF SHREVEPORT TO JUST WEST
OF ALEXANDRIA AND SOUTHWARD TO NEAR LAKE CHARLES AND OFFSHORE INTO THE
NORTHWEST GULF TO BEYOND 150 MILES. THIS AREA EXTENDED WESTWARD INTO
SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO JUST WEST OF HOUSTON AND LUFKIN.
.
ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE GULF 10 TO 70 MILES
OFFSHORE FROM WHITE LAKE TO VERMILION BAY.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 20, 3:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia, Lafayette, Vermilion96 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.