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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 28, 20244 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2024, 4:04 PM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 26 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 28, 2024, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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
May 28, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 4311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.8
Supercell composite: -4.3

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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 28, 3:46 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:46 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:19 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 3:41 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 3:46 PM CDT, 18 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 28, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	33 min
May 28, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
May 28, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	33 min
May 28, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	30 min
May 28, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		37 min
May 28, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	28 min
May 28, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	37 min
May 28, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	28 min
May 28, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron	57 min
May 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		39 min
May 28, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
May 28, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	37 min
May 28, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		59 min
May 28, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	34 min
May 28, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	30 min
May 28, 2:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion	3 hr
May 28, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
May 28, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	34 min
May 28, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	46 min
May 28, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	41 min
May 28, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Saint Landry	32 min
May 28, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion	54 min
May 28, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		97 min
May 28, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	49 min
May 28, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	29 min
May 28, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion	29 min
May 28, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
May 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		17 min
May 28, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	25 min
May 28, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	27 min
May 28, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	40 min
May 28, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	28 min
May 28, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	32 min
May 28, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	41 min
May 28, 12:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	35 min
May 28, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	59 min
May 28, 12:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	3 hr
May 28, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	12 min
May 28, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	38 min
May 28, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	30 min
May 28, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	26 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.