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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 96 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.