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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 2, 2024Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2024, 5:07 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 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 2, 2024, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 351 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: 803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:16 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:57 PM CDT, 10 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
Jun 1, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Jun 1, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	97 min
Jun 1, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LCH	Vernon	56 min
Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		93 min
Jun 1, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	35 min
Jun 1, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline	25 min
Jun 1, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		70 min
Jun 2, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	42 min
Jun 2, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		54 min
Jun 2, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		47 min
Jun 2, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette	44 min
Jun 2, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	25 min
Jun 2, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Vermilion	51 min
Jun 2, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LCH	Iberia	32 min
Jun 2, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		60 min
Jun 2, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	67 min
Jun 2, 3:56 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
Jun 2, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		62 min
Jun 2, 4:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min
Jun 2, 5:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		23 min
Jun 2, 5:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		67 min
Jun 2, 5:57 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Jun 2, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		47 min
Jun 2, 7:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	58 min
Jun 2, 10:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	25 min
Jun 2, 10:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Saint Landry, Saint Martin	3 hr
Jun 2, 11:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	29 min
Jun 2, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	25 min
Jun 2, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, St. Mary	12 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	31 min
Jun 2, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	35 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
Jun 2, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	31 min
Jun 2, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	33 min
Jun 2, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	26 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	34 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	5 hr
Jun 2, 12:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	5 days

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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.