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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 2, 1993Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1993, 9:12 AM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 1993, 9:12 AM CDT (14:12 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 1993, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 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

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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, May 2, 6:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 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.

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Special weather statement, May 2, 7:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

TXZ046-048-021330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
734 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 730 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LUFKIN SOUTHWARD TO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND
OFF SHORE ABOUT 100 MILES.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

EARLIER THIS MORNING...BETWEEN 500 AND 600 AM...A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS.  WINDS GUSTED TO 46 MILES
AN HOUR AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT SHORTLY BEFORE 600 AM...AND
SHORTLY AFTER 600 AM...THE WIND GUSTED TO 47 MILES AN HOUR AT SEA RIM
STATE PARK.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ALSO FELL AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIR PORT WITH
THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH RECEIVED IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES.

THE THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARE NOT QUITE AS
STRONG...ALTHOUGH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY
WINDS ARE STILL IN THE EARLY MORNING FORECAST.

AND FURTHER TO THE WEST...ANOTHER LINE OF STORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTH OF
COLLEGE STATION TO JUST EAST OF VICTORIA.  THIS LINE MAY HOLD TOGETHER
LONG ENOUGH TO AFFECT SOUTHEAST TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

IF PYOU SEE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING...MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES. MOTORTISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION DRIVING ON RAIN-SLICKENED ROADS
THIS SUNDAY MORNING.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.

NNNN

Special weather statement, May 2, 7:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

TXZ046-048-021330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
734 AM CDT SUN MAY 2 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 730 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LUFKIN SOUTHWARD TO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND
OFF SHORE ABOUT 100 MILES.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

EARLIER THIS MORNING...BETWEEN 500 AND 600 AM...A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH SOUTHEAST TEXAS.  WINDS GUSTED TO 46 MILES
AN HOUR AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIRPORT SHORTLY BEFORE 600 AM...AND
SHORTLY AFTER 600 AM...THE WIND GUSTED TO 47 MILES AN HOUR AT SEA RIM
STATE PARK.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ALSO FELL AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AIR PORT WITH
THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH RECEIVED IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES.

THE THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARE NOT QUITE AS
STRONG...ALTHOUGH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY
WINDS ARE STILL IN THE EARLY MORNING FORECAST.

AND FURTHER TO THE WEST...ANOTHER LINE OF STORMS EXTENDS FROM SOUTH OF
COLLEGE STATION TO JUST EAST OF VICTORIA.  THIS LINE MAY HOLD TOGETHER
LONG ENOUGH TO AFFECT SOUTHEAST TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

IF YOU SEE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING...MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES. MOTORTISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION DRIVING ON RAIN-SLICKENED ROADS
THIS SUNDAY MORNING.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.

NNNN

Local storm report, May 2, 8:18 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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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, 7:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	55 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

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.