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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 1992, 9:06 AM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 1992, 9:06 AM CST (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1992, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 241514 TORBPT TXC241-351-241600- BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 906AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARHTUR HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS COUNTY OF.... TEXAS... JASPER AND NEWTON. GALVESTON RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR EVADALE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2PM CST. DJ
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 24, 6:02 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ033-046-241345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 538 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... AT 535 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE LAKES AREA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM CROCKETT TO LIVINGSTON. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING NACOGDOCHES...ANGELINA AND NORTH TYLER COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS IN THE EAST TEXfAS LAKES AREA SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. EARLY MORNING MOTORIST SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAINY TRAVEL. NNNN
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 8:45 AM CST, 21 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-241540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 830 AM CST TUE NOV 24 1992 AT 825 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NORTH OF BEAUMONT TO LAKE LIVINGSTON AND NEWTON TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND STRONG WINDS IN PORTIONS OF BEAUREGARD AND VERNON PARISHES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM SABINE PASS TO HOUSTON AND NORTHWARD TO EAST OF COLLEGE STATION AND LUFKIN AND INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 8:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 62 min |
| Nov 24, 8:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 50 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.