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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 10, 2022Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2022, 2:37 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 10, 2022, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2022, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 10, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2022-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2156 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2022-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 1:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides36 min
Jun 10, 1:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides30 min
Jun 10, 2:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon26 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLCHVernon24 min
Jun 10, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLCHAllen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon23 min
Jun 10, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides36 min
Jun 10, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLCHAllen, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon65 min
Jun 10, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAvoyelles47 min
Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHSaint Landry48 min
Jun 10, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAcadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette48 min
Jun 10, 4:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAssumption52 min
Jun 10, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHLafayette, Saint Martin34 min
Jun 10, 5:05 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH55 min
Jun 10, 5:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHSaint Martin, St. Mary34 min
Jun 10, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHSt. Mary32 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.