Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 1994, 4:20 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 1994, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 1994, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vernon Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Burr Ferry, LA | Thunderstorms, a few reaching severe levels, moved across north and west Louisiana during the morning. Wind gusts estimated between 55 and 65 mph were reported in several locations with property damage generally confined to downed trees. The most significant d |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 272221 TORLCH LAC115-272315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 420 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...VERNON PARISH AT 418 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INIDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEESVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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, Nov 27, 12:04 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
LAZ020-022-027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-272005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1204 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 1150 AM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF NATCHITOCHES AND JUST WEST OF LAFAYETTE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM SABINE PASS TO ATCHAFALAYA BAY. THROUGH 200 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION. SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA ACROSS VERNON...GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR WILL PERSIST OVER THE ENTIRE REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 12:45 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ201-181-182-167-180-271945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1245 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 .....CORRECTION TO MOVEMENT... .....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS..... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. AT 1230 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH OF HEMPHILL TO NEAR CONROE. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED ON THE TYLER-JASPER COUNTY BORDER BETWEEN WOODVILLE AND JASPER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE STRONG WIND GUSTS. THESE WIND GUSTS MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 50 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. LINHARES NNNN
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 12:45 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ201-181-182-167-180-271945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1245 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 .....CORRECTION TO MOVEMENT... .....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS..... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. AT 1230 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH OF HEMPHILL TO NEAR CONROE. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED ON THE TYLER-JASPER COUNTY BORDER BETWEEN WOODVILLE AND JASPER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE STRONG WIND GUSTS. THESE WIND GUSTS MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 50 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. LINHARES NNNN
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 12:45 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
LAZ020-022-271950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1246 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 ...GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES ARE INCLUDED IN A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING.. ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR AREA LAKES TODAY... AT 1235 PM...THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT LAKE CHARLES INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF HOUSTON TEXAS THROUGH KIRBYVILLE TO MANY TO NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 12:46 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
LAZ020-022-271950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1246 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 ...GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES ARE INCLUDED IN A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM THIS EVENING.. ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR AREA LAKES TODAY... AT 1235 PM...THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES GRANT AND LA SALLE PARISHES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT LAKE CHARLES INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF HOUSTON TEXAS THROUGH KIRBYVILLE TO MANY TO NORTHEAST OF WINNFIELD. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 2:13 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
TXZ165-201-181-182-167-166-180-272115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 213 PM CST SUN NOV 27 1994 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS..... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A TYLER-COLLEGE STATION-AUSTIN LINE. AT 200 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM NEAR EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA TO NEAR CLEVELAND TEXAS. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS WAS LOCATED FROM THE SOUTHERN END OF SAM RAYBURN RESERVOIR THROUGH WOODVILLE DOWN TO NEAR VOTAW. ANOTHER AREA WAS LOCATED TO THE SOUTH OF LUFKIN BETWEEN FULLER SPRINGS AND ZAVALLA. THIS AREA EXTENDED TO THE NORTHEAST THROUGH SAN AUGUSTINE AND INTO LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS, POSSIBLE HAIL, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, AND HEAVY RAINFALL AS THESE STORMS QUICKLY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. IF THESE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA....FIND SHELTER QUICKLY...MOVE TO THE CENTER OF THE STRUCTURE...AND WAIT FOR THE STORMS TO PASS. LINHARES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 65 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.