Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 4:12 PM CST for Grant Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 4:12 PM CST (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
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 30, 1:44 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:55 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
TXZ046-048-302200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 255 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 700 PM... AT 255 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...NORTH OF LIBERTY AND NEAR KOUNTZE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF SABINE COUNTY IN THE LAKES AREA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AS WELL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNFED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:36 PM CST, 36 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-302235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 335 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS TUESDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 325 PM...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS SHOWN 15 MILES EITHER SIDE OF THE SOUTHERN MOST END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM JENA TO TOLDEO BEND RESERVIOR AND THEN TO BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND KOUNTZE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:40 PM CST, 32 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-302235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 335 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS TUESDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 325 PM...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS SHOWN 15 MILES EITHER SIDE OF THE SOUTHERN MOST END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVIOR. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM JENA TO TOLDEO BEND RESERVIOR AND THEN TO BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND KOUNTZE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:50 PM CST, 22 minutes before
TXZ033-046-048-302245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 350 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SABINE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 330 PM.. AT 350 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NEAR JASPER AND SOUTH OF DAM B. A SECOND BAND EXTENDED FROM ALTO TO MOUNT ENTERPRISE AND WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST NACOGDOCHES COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NORTHEAST OF JASPER AND OVER THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF TOLEDO BEND. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED SO FAR IN THESE AREAS...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBILITY TORNADOES. PERSONS IN EAST ATND SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LATEST WEATHER DETAILS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Grant | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | LaSalle | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Sabine | 54 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.