Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1993, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 KLCH 260007 COR TORLCH LAC011-260045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECT TIME OF REPORT TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 652 PM CDT WED AUG 25 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...BEAUREGARD PARISH AT 655 PM CDT THE BEAUREGARD PARISH CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED TWO TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS IN THE DE RIDDER AREA. THE TORNADOS WERE REPORTED TO BE MOVING WEST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Aug 25, 6:20 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-260040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 620 PM CDT WED AUG 25 1993 AT 615 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER VERNON... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND CAMERON PARISHES. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES...AND OTHER LOW PLACES...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 730 PM CDT THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:21 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-260040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 620 PM CDT WED AUG 25 1993 AT 615 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER VERNON... BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND CAMERON PARISHES. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES...AND OTHER LOW PLACES...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 730 PM CDT THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING.
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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.