Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 2, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1992, 12:16 AM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min. 3 reports 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
- Mar 5, 1992, 12:16 AM CST (06:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1992, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:20 AM CST | Tornado F2 | St. Landry, LA | |
| Mar 5, 12:58 AM CST | Tornado F1 | St. Landry, LA | |
| Mar 5, 1:20 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | St. Landry, 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 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 4, 7:18 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
LAZ008-006-008-009-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 715 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARDS ST LANDRY AND AVOYELLES PARISHES... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF OPELOUSAS... MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE PATH OF THIS STORM COULD CARRY IT INTO ST LANDRY AND AVOYELLES PARISHES WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE PARISHES SHOULD STAY ALERT TO DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ELSWHERE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR LAFAYETTE...NORTH TO NEAR WINNESBORO AND WEST TO FORT POmLK. MOVEMENT OF THE ENTIRE AREA WAS SLOWLY NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 8:47 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
LAZ008-006-008-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 850 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING AVOYELLES PARISH... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BUNKIE... MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THIS STORM SHOULD ENTER AVOYELLES PARISH SOUTH OF BUNKIE WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AVOYELLES SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ELSWHERE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR LAFAYETTE...NORTH TO NEAR WINNESBORO AND EAST TO NATCHEZ AND WOODVILLE IN MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 9:12 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LAZ008-006-008-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 915 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER AVOYELLES PARISH... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BUNKIE...MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE STORM SHOULD BE NEAR MARKSVILLE BETWEEN 930 AND 1000 PM. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN AVOYELLES PjARISH SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ELSWHERE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR LAFAYETTE...NORTH TO NEAR WINNESBORO AND EAST TO NATCHEZ AND WOODVILLE IN MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 9:48 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
LAZ008-006-008-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 950 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER AVOYELLES PARISH...APPROACHING CONCORDIA PARISH... RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF MARKSVILLE... MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE STORM SHOULD ENTER SOUTHERN CONCORDIA PARISH BY 1030 PM. PERSONS IN AVOYELLES AND CONCORDIA PARISHES SHOULD STAY ALERT TO DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ELSWHERE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR LAFAYETTE...NORTH TO NEAR WINNESBORO AND EAST TO NATCHEZ AND WOODVILLE IN MISSISSIPDPI.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 10:26 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
LAZ008-006-008-050600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1025 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH AVOYELLES PARISH... RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING SOUTHWEST OF AVOYELLES PARISH AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH THE PARISH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED STREETS. ELSWHERE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR OPELOUSAS...NEAR BATON ROUGE...ALEXANDRIA...WINNESBORO AND TO VICKSBURG...BROOKZHAVEN AND NATCHEZ IN MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, West Feliciana | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 3:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Helena | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 3:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 5:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 5:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa, Washington | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 7:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 7:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 7:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberia, Saint Martin | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 8:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | St. Mary | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 8:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 8:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 8:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 8:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 8:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 9:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.