Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1994, 3:31 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1994, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 2019 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 29, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ165-181-182-152-167-166-180-291845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1236 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... AT 1230PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR PALESTINE TO LONGVIEW AND SHREVEPORT. WINDS GUSTED TO 40 MPH AT THE TYLER AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND SHOULD REACH THE NORTHWEST CORNOR OF NACOGDOCHES COUNTY BY 130PM CDT, THEN SWEEP ACROSS DEEP EAST TEXAS. THE STORMS SHOULD AFFECT ALL THE EAST TEXAS LAKES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AREA BOATERS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTERED WATERS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THESE QUICK MOVING STORMS. DJ NNNN
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ165-181-182-152-167-166-180-291845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1236 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED IN THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA... AT 1230PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR PALESTINE TO LONGVIEW AND SHREVEPORT. WINDS GUSTED TO 40 MPH AT THE TYLER AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND SHOULD REACH THE NORTHWEST CORNOR OF NACOGDOCHES COUNTY BY 130PM CDT, THEN SWEEP ACROSS DEEP EAST TEXAS. THE STORMS SHOULD AFFECT ALL THE EAST TEXAS LAKES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AREA BOATERS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTERED WATERS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THESE QUICK MOVING STORMS. DJ NNNN
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ165-181-182-152-167-166-180-291945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 138 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 AT 130PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHED NORTHERN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY TEXAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. WARNING HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ANDERSON AND HOUSTON COUNTIES TO THE WEST OF NACOGDOCHES COUNTY. WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE FAST MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HOLIDAY BOATERS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL CONDITIONS. DON'T VENTURE FAR FROM PROTECTED WATERS. THE STORMS SHOULD AFFECT SAM RAYBURN SHORTLY AFTER 2PM CDT. DJ NNNN
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ165-181-182-152-167-166-180-291945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 138 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 1994 AT 130PM CDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHED NORTHERN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY TEXAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. WARNING HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ANDERSON AND HOUSTON COUNTIES TO THE WEST OF NACOGDOCHES COUNTY. WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE FAST MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HOLIDAY BOATERS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LOCAL CONDITIONS. DON'T VENTURE FAR FROM PROTECTED WATERS. THE STORMS SHOULD AFFECT SAM RAYBURN SHORTLY AFTER 2PM CDT. DJ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 61 min |
| May 29, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Grant, Rapides | 65 min |
| May 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 67 min |
| May 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 56 min |
| May 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 56 min |
| May 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 61 min |
| May 29, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 68 min |
| May 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 65 min |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 53 min |
| May 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Sabine | 68 min |
| May 29, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 43 min |
| May 29, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 41 min |
| May 29, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 59 min |
| May 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.