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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2024, 12:43 AM CDT for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 29, 2024, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2024, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
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 Apr 28, 11:58 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 11:58 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 71 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:06 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 12:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Vernon | 4 days |
| Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 3 days |
| Apr 29, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Rapides, Vernon | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 4:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 57 min | |
| Apr 29, 4:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 65 min | |
| Apr 29, 5:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 5:21 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 54 min | |
| Apr 29, 5:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 5:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 54 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:22 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 6:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 42 min | |
| Apr 29, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 7:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Apr 29, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Apr 29, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 7:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon | 12 hr |
| Apr 29, 7:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:06 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 54 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:24 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 66 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 9:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 9:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Apr 29, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Martin | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Watch | LCH | Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 11 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 3 days |
| Apr 29, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 5 days |
| Apr 29, 9:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 11 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Apr 29, 9:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 12 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 21 days |
| Apr 29, 2:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 5 days |
| Apr 28, 8:37 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | LCH | Hardin, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 27 days |
| Apr 28, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper | 31 days |
| Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 26 days |
| Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 21 days |
| Apr 29, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 5:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 4 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.