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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2023, 3:08 AM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 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 16, 2023, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2023, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 3933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 8 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 24 hr |
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.