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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 25, 1993Acadia Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1993, 8:43 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1993, 8:43 PM CST (02:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1993, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Acadia Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 260246
SVRLCH
LAC001-260345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
843 PM CST THU MAR 25 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...ACADIA PARISH
 
AT 840 PM CST...THE LAKE CHARLES WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF JENNINGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM DROPPED GOLF BALL
SIZE HAIL OVER THE CITY OF JENNINGS WITHIN THE LAST HOUR. THE
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IhN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
 
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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, 4:40 PM CST, 4 hours 3 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, 2 hours 13 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.

Local storm report, Mar 25, 8:33 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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

TIME                     LOCATION                   REPORT

810-825 PM              JEFFERSON DAVIS            GOLF BALL SIDZE
                        PARISH                     HAIL IN JENNINGS
                                                   ..RPTD BY CITY
                                                   POLICE.

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, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	61 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

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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.