Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 6:58 PM CST for San Augustine County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 6:58 PM CST (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Augustine County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 645 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 3:36 PM CST, 3 hours 22 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, 3 hours 18 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, 3 hours 8 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
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:35 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ-048-302330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 435 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 430 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WATCH WERE ALL WELL NORTH OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE. ONE LINE WAS NOTED FROM NEWTON TO THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR AND INTO LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEA-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN JASPER AT 345 PM...OTHERWISE NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER WERE RECEIVED FROM THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA OR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE SUNSET IN THE GOLDEN TRIAN6GLE...THEN SKIES WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR AS A PACIFIC COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS. & NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 5:03 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ046-048-310000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 503 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR THE COUNTIES OF NACOGDOCHES...ANGELINA...SAN AUGUSTINE...SABINE...NEWTON...JASPER... TYLER...AND HARDIN... AT 500 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE OF LINES OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST TEXAS. ONE LINE EXTENDED FROM LEESVILLE LOUISIANA TO NEWTON...WARREN...AND LIBERTY. A SECOND LINE EXTENDED FROM SHREVEPORT TO CENTER...EAST OF NACOGDOCHES...TO NORTHEAST OF LUFKIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED JUST SOUTHEAST OF NACOGDOCHES AND EAST OF BURKEVILLE. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... LARGE HAIL...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS. NNNN
Local storm report, Mar 30, 6:31 PM CST, 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
630 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993
TIME LOCATION REPORT
600 PM VERNON PARISH NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE 3 S OF
LEESVILLE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 6:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | LaSalle | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1993Every 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.