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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 28, 1992Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1992, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Acadia Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Acadia, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 282352
TORLCH
LAC001-290045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
650 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ACADIA PARISH
 
AT 655PM CDT ACADIA PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS
JUST SOUTH OF IOTA. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
ACADIA PARISH.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	61 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.