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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 17, 2010Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 4:18 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2010, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2010, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 16, 6:39 PM CDT, 21 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 6:39 PM CDT, 21 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides, Vernon	60 min
May 17, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	51 min
May 17, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides	58 min
May 17, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	56 min
May 17, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	51 min
May 17, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		28 min
May 17, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	38 min
May 17, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
May 17, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Tyler	39 min
May 17, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	60 min
May 17, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.