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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 26, 2024Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 26, 2024, 11:10 AM CST for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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: Dec 26, 2024, 11:10 AM CST (17:10 UTC)
Expired: Dec 26, 2024, 11:38 AM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Dec 26, 5:06 AM CST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 5:06 AM CST, 6 hours 4 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
Dec 25, 10:34 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more	10 hr
Dec 25, 10:52 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		10 hr
Dec 26, 8:06 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		54 min
Dec 26, 9:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
Dec 26, 3:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	36 min
Dec 26, 5:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Vernon	3 hr
Dec 26, 12:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Tyler	33 min
Dec 26, 2:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	20 min
Dec 26, 3:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	38 min
Dec 26, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin	51 min
Dec 26, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	26 min
Dec 26, 5:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin	4 hr
Dec 26, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	44 min
Dec 26, 5:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler	5 hr
Dec 26, 5:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	27 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.