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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 18, 1993Grant Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1993, 3:29 PM CDT for Grant Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1993, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 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, 8.5 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.

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: 420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:36 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:37 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

TXZ033-182100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
255 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 1993

AT 255PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WEST SIDE
OF LAKE SAM RAYBURN. THIS STORM WAS LARGE AND WILL DRIFT EAST ACROSS
NORTHERN JASPER AND NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTIES ALONG WITH SOUTHERN SABINE
COUNTY.

AT 218PM SOME PEA SIZE HAIL FELL FROM THIS STORM IN SOUTHERN SAN
AUGUSTINE COUNTY.  GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL SHOU@LD BE EXPECTED FROM
THIS STORM UNTIL AROUND 4PM CDT.
DJ

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

TXZ033-182100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
255 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 1993

AT 255PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WEST SIDE
OF LAKE SAM RAYBURN. THIS STORM WAS LARGE AND WILL DRIFT EAST ACROSS
NORTHERN JASPER AND NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTIES ALONG WITH SOUTHERN SABINE
COUNTY.

AT 218PM SOME PEA SIZE HAIL FELL FROM THIS STORM IN SOUTHERN SAN
AUGUSTINE COUNTY.  GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL SHOULD BE EXPECTED FROM
THIS STORM UNTIL AROUND 4PM CDT.
DJ

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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 18, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Grant	45 min
May 18, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	65 min
May 18, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	27 min
May 18, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Angelina, Nacogdoches	59 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.