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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 25, 1993Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1993, 7:44 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Evangeline Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1993, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1993, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 1588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 25, 2:42 PM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:40 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-252338-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
438 PM CST THU MAR 25 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL PARISHES
   IN SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 430 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM
THE EUNICE AREA...TO BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND BATON ROUGE...TO THE NATCHEZ
MISSISSIPPI AREA.

PERSONS IN ACADIA AND RAPIDES PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FROM
NOW UNTIL 5:30 PM CST THIS THURSDAY EVENING.

ELSEWHERE...RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER GULF FROM
20 TO BEYOND 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAMERON TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

Local storm report, Mar 25, 6:30 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
630 PM CST THU MAR 25 1993

TIME                     LOCATION                   REPORT

5-515PM                 ALLEN PARISH               MARBLE SIZED
                                                   HAIL IN KINDER
                                                   RPTD BY CITY
                                                   POLICE.

625  PM                 ACADIA PARISH              MARBLE SIZED
                                                   HAIL RPTD IN
                                                   CHURCH POINT
                                                   BY SHERIFFS
                                                 b  OFFICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline	64 min
Mar 25, 8:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia	62 min
Mar 25, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette	45 min
Mar 25, 9:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vermilion	51 min
Mar 25, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vermilion	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.