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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 25, 1993Allen Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1993, 4:55 PM CST for Allen Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1993, 4:55 PM CST (22:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1993, 6:00 PM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

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 25, 11:37 AM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:40 PM CST, 15 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-252338-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
438 PM CST THU MAR 25 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALL PARISHES
   IN SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 430 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM
THE EUNICE AREA...TO BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND BATON ROUGE...TO THE NATCHEZ
MISSISSIPPI AREA.

PERSONS IN ACADIA AND RAPIDES PARISHES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL FROM
NOW UNTIL 5:30 PM CST THIS THURSDAY EVENING.

ELSEWHERE...RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER GULF FROM
20 TO BEYOND 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM CAMERON TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 9:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHRapides60 min
Mar 25, 3:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline60 min
Mar 25, 5:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAcadia55 min

Nearby

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