Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 15, 1993, 4:42 PM CST for Nacogdoches County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1993, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1993, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nacogdoches County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 759 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 879 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 152242 TORBPT TXC347-152330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 442 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN EAST TEXAS ...NORTHERN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY AT 440 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ALTO IN CHEROKEE COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF DOUGLASS... CUSHING...AND NACOGDOCHES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Feb 15, 12:53 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TXZ033-152000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1253 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...ANGELINA...CHEROKEE..HOUSTON... NACOGDOCHES...SABINE...SAN AUGUSTINE...AND TRINITY. AT 1250 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SHREVEPORT...THROUGH LONGVIEW AND TYLER... TO JUST EAST OF WACO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED 30 MILES EAST OF WACO AND 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TYLER. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE LINE WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES COULD OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER QUICKLY IF SEVERE WEAThHER THREATENS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:46 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ033-152145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 246 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA UNTIL 500 PM... COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...ANGELINA...CHEROKEE...HOUSTON... NACOGDOCHES...SABINE...SAN AUGUSTINE...AND TRINITY. AT 245 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT TO SOUTH OF LONGVIEW...AND TO THE WEST NEAR WACO. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO NOTED JUST TO THE SOUTH OF LUFKIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT...AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONGVIEW. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS ALL OF EAST TEXAS. SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. PERSONS IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA \SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 4:21 PM CST, 21 minutes before
TXZ033-046-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 421 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA UNTIL 1100 PM... COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...ANGELINA...CHEROKEE...HOUSTON... NACOGDOCHES...SABINE...SAN AUGUSTINE...TRINITY...TYLER...NEWTON...AND JASPER. AT 420 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SHREVEPORT TO SOUTHERN RUSK COUNTY...AND TO THE WEST TO EAST OF WACO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER SOUTHERN RUSK COUNTY. THESE STORMS PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR REKLAW EARLIER. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS MOST OF EAST TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF TREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCED LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIBO OR THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 4:26 PM CST, 16 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 430 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT..LASALLE..RAPIDES PARISHES IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND ALLEN..BEAUREGARD..VERNON AND EVANGELINE PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 11 PM CST THIS EVENING... AT 4.25 PM CST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS SHOWN ALONG THE SABINE RIVER BETWEEN PORT ARTHUR TEXAS AND DEQUINCY AND EXTENDING EAST ACROSS BEAUREGARD...ALLEN AND EVANGELINE ARISHES TO JUST NORTH OF LAFAYETTE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW PATCHES OF RAIN WERE ALSO SHOWN NORTHEAST AND EAST OF ALEXANDRIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
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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.