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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2024, 2:32 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. 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
- Mar 8, 2024, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2024, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 560 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:46 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 50 hr | |
| Mar 8, 9:25 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 20 min |
| Mar 8, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 1:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 2:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 3:37 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 21 min | |
| Mar 8, 1:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Newton | 37 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.