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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2013, 2:41 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 31, 2013, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hardin County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Mar 31, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 525 AM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 011030- VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY- CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-NORTHERN JASPER- NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 525 AM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING AND A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 10 AM. OTHERWISE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA BEGINNING TUESDAY EVENING AND CONTINUING INTO WEDNESDAY. DESPITE THE DRY WEATHER LATELY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR FLOODING RAINS DURING THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-011030- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 525 AM CDT SUN MAR 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY FOG WITH VISIBILITIES LESS THAN ONE MILE ARE CURRENTLY OCCURRING NEAR THE SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA COAST. THE FOG MAY BECOME A LITTLE MORE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT AND MONDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 31, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:12 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Martin | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:44 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 5 hr | |
| Mar 31, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry and 1 more | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Jefferson Davis | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 34 min | |
| Mar 31, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 37 min | |
| Mar 31, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Martin | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 66 min | |
| Mar 31, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Mar 31, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary, Vermilion | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 12:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 1:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 62 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.