Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1993, 7:20 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1993, 7:20 AM CDT (12:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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, May 2, 5:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 2, 5:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-021140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 553 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993 ...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCREASED IN BOTH AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY... AT 526 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING FROM JUST WEST OF KINDER TO BETWEEN WOODVILLE TEXAS AND JUST EAST OF FREEPORT TEXAS. CLACASIEU...ALLEN...AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SHOULD BE ALERT TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLY FLOODING STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS OVER THE NEXT HOUR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE OCCURRING OVER THE GULF FROM 50 TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS TO 55 TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE...AND TO ALONG THE COAST AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS NEAR ATCHAFALAYA BAY. . WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN EUNICE... NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND MANSFIELD. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILEXS NORTH OF LUFKIN TEXAS TO BETWEEN ORANGE TEXAS AND ALONG THE COAST NEAR FREEPORT TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 2, 5:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-021140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 553 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993 ...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCREASED IN BOTH AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY... AT 526 AM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING FROM JUST WEST OF KINDER TO BETWEEN WOODVILLE TEXAS AND JUST EAST OF FREEPORT TEXAS. CLACASIEU...ALLEN...AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SHOULD BE ALERT TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLY FLOODING STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS OVER THE NEXT HOUR AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE OCCURRING OVER THE GULF FROM 50 TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS TO 55 TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE...AND TO ALONG THE COAST AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS NEAR ATCHAFALAYA BAY. . WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN EUNICE... NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND MANSFIELD. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF LUFKIN TEXAS TO BETWEEN ORANGE TEXAS AND ALONG THE COAST NEAR FREEPORT TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttE6WWUS" tttt`WWUS8 <ttttttttttXWOUS6n pSWWUS dlF6WWUSp D66WWUSn. Ll6WWUS ptttth_8Z.VER 1#FXUS
Special weather statement, May 2, 6:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ046-048-021215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 618 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN NEWTON...ORANGE...AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES... AT 615 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEWTON TO ORANGE TO PORT ARTHUR MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHED THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT AT 547 AM...THE WIND GUSTED TO 46 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE DUMPING THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY 700 AM... HOWEVER AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS WEST OF THE MAIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE HOUSTON AREA...THUS RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL LIKELY THIS MORNING...BUT THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL HAVE PUSHED EAST. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS...ESPECIALLY IN ORANGE AND SOUTHERN NEWTON COUNTIES...SHOULD STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED...AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 2, 6:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ046-048-021215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 618 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN NEWTON...ORANGE...AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES... AT 615 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEWTON TO ORANGE TO PORT ARTHUR MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHED THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT AT 547 AM...THE WIND GUSTED TO 46 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE DUMPING THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY 700 AM... HOWEVER AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS WEST OF THE MAIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE HOUSTON AREA...THUS RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL LIKELY THIS MORNING...BUT THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL HAVE PUSHED EAST. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS...ESPECIALLY IN ORANGE AND SOUTHERN NEWTON COUNTIES...SHOULD STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED...AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 56 min |
| May 2, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 30 min |
| May 2, 8:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 63 min |
| May 2, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.