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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 13, 2021Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2021, 9:10 PM CDT for Evangeline Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2021, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2021, 9:28 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Evangeline Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

601 
WUUS54 KLCH 140210
SVRLCH
LAC039-079-140245-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0098.210614T0210Z-210614T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
910 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Rapides Parish in central Louisiana...
  North central Evangeline Parish in central Louisiana...

* Until 945 PM CDT.

* At 910 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lecompte, or
  7 miles northwest of Cheneyville, moving southwest at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Glenmora, Cheneyville, Turkey Creek, Lecompte, Forest Hill and
  Mcnary.

This includes Interstate 49 between mile markers 58 and 71.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3119 9235 3110 9224 3086 9239 3101 9264
TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 040DEG 17KT 3111 9234 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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1 follow-up statement

751 
WWUS54 KLCH 140228
SVSLCH

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
928 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

LAC039-079-140238-
/O.CAN.KLCH.SV.W.0098.000000T0000Z-210614T0245Z/
Rapides LA-Evangeline LA-
928 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RAPIDES AND NORTH
CENTRAL EVANGELINE PARISHES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However gusty winds are
still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3119 9235 3110 9224 3086 9239 3101 9264
TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 040DEG 17KT 3104 9240 

$$

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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
Jun 13, 7:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	44 min
Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	49 min
Jun 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	46 min
Jun 13, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	52 min
Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	29 min
Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	47 min
Jun 13, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette	48 min
Jun 13, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis, Vermilion	45 min
Jun 13, 11:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	38 min
Jun 14, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.