Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 1993, 11:21 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 1993, 11:21 AM CDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1993, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 2291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 261624 TORLCH LAC019-261700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1121 AM CDT SUN SEP 26 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CALCASIEU PARISH AT 1120 AM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IN MOSS BLUFF ON DUNNE-FERRY ROAD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. 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, Sep 26, 10:45 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1045 AM CDT SUN SEP 26 1993 AT 1025 AM...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...HAD DEVELOPED FROM JUST SOUTH OF OAKDALE TO THE KINDER AREA TO THE COAST MIDWAY BETWEEN CAMERON AND WHITE LAKE AND INTO THE GULF TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. THE LINE APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS...AND CAMERON PARISHES AND INTO EVANGELINE..ACADIA...AND VERMILION PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM WELL NORTH OF LUFKIN AND SAN AUGUSTINE IN EAST TEXAS AND FROM WELL NORTH OF MANSFIELD...NATCHITOCHES...AND WINNFIELD IN LOUISIANA SOUTH TO THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO WHITE LAKE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO THE GULF TO 70 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 10:49 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
LAZ005>008-011-012-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1045 AM CDT SUN SEP 26 1993 AT 1025 AM...A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...HAD DEVELOPED FROM JUST SOUTH OF OAKDALE TO THE KINDER AREA TO THE COAST MIDWAY BETWEEN CAMERON AND WHITE LAKE AND INTO THE GULF TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. THE LINE APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS...AND CAMERON PARISHES AND INTO EVANGELINE..ACADIA...AND VERMILION PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM WELL NORTH OF LUFKIN AND SAN AUGUSTINE IN EAST TEXAS AND FROM WELL NORTH OF MANSFIELD...NATCHITOCHES...AND WINNFIELD IN LOUISIANA SOUTH THO THE COAST FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO WHITE LAKE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO THE GULF TO 70 MILES OFFSHORE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
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.